The Council has made an order under the Road Traffic Regulation Act 1984, as amended, to introduce by way of an experiment:
(1) Amendments to 24-hour waiting restrictions on: (i) Grassmarket (north leg); (ii) Victoria Street / West Bow; (iii) Waverley Bridge; & (iv) West Bow;
(2) Amendments to 24-hour waiting restrictions and loading / unloading prohibitions on: (i) Cockburn Street; (ii) Grassmarket (north leg); (iii) High Street; (iv) Victoria Street; & (v) West Bow;
(3) Introduce prohibitions of motor vehicles (with exemptions): (a) at any time on (i) Cockburn Street; (ii) High Street; (iii) Victoria Street / West Bow; (iv) Waverley Bridge; & (v) West Bow; & (b) from 7.30am-6.30pm on South Saint David Street; &
(4) Introduce one-way restriction (with exemptions) on High Street.
Details of the order and related documents, including our privacy notice, can be viewed free of charge either at Waverley Court Reception between 9:30 & 15:30 Mon-Fri, or online from 19 February 2024 to 18 August 2024 at www.edinburgh.gov.uk/trafficorders and www.tellmescotland.gov.uk.
The order will come into effect on 19 February 2024. The Council will consider in due course whether the provisions of the order should be continued in force indefinitely. Any person may object to the making of the order for the purpose of such indefinite continuation.
Objections should state the name and address of the objector, the matters to which they relate and the grounds on which they are made, in writing quoting reference TRO/21/26A to Traffic Orders, Place, Waverley Court, 4 East Market St, Edinburgh, EH8 8BG, or by email to edinburgh.consultation@projectcentre.co.uk, not later than 18 August 2024. If you are responding to this consultation and your comments or objection relate to any particular location/s or element/s of the proposals, it would be helpful if you could identify those in your response.
Should this order be varied by another experimental order or otherwise modified, there will be a further period of six months during which objections will be invited, beginning with the day on which the variation or modification or the latest variation or modification came into force.
TRO/21/26 as advertised on 11 November 2022 and which came into operation on 21 November 2022 is hereby revoked.
Legislation Information
Road Traffic Regulation Act 1984, as amended.
Experimental Traffic Regulation Order with various restrictions and prohibitions
3. 21_26A Plans.pdf