Urban Clearways Order (Northern Ireland) 1997

Made: 2nd April 1997

Coming into operation: 14th May 1997

NOW THEREFORE the Department, in exercise of the powers conferred on it by Article 21(1) of the Road Traffic (Northern Ireland) Order 1981 and of every other power enabling it in that behalf, hereby makes the following Order:

Citation, commencement and interpretation

1

• (1) This Order may be cited as the Urban Clearways Order (Northern Ireland) 1997 and shall come into operation on 14th May 1997.

• (2) In this Order—

• “carriageway” means a way constituted or comprised in a road being a way over which the public have a right of way for the passage of vehicles but does not include a lay-by;

• “lay-by” means a surfaced area adjacent to the carriageway intended for the waiting of vehicles;

• “specified road” means the carriageway of any road or length of road specified in column 1 of Schedule 1;

• “statutory undertaker” means— the Post Office; the railway undertaking within the meaning of the Transport Act (Northern Ireland) 1967[^f00002]; an undertaking within the meaning of the Gas (Northern Ireland) Order 1977[^f00003]; any body or person authorised by any statutory provision to carry on any harbour or dock undertaking.

Control of Waiting

2

Save as provided in Article 3, no person shall cause or permit a vehicle to wait wholly or partly in a specified road during the hours and on the days specified in columns 2 and 3 of Schedule 1 respectively.

Exemptions

3

• (1) Nothing in Article 2 shall render it unlawful to cause or permit a vehicle to wait in a specified road for so long as may be necessary—

• (a) for a person to board or alight from the vehicle provided that such boarding or alighting does not cause the vehicle to wait in the same place for more than 2 minutes;

• (b) for the collection or delivery of a postal packet as defined in section 87 of the Post Office Act, 1953[^f00004];

• (c) for the opening or closing of a gate or other barrier at the entrance to premises to which the vehicle requires access or from which it has emerged if it is not reasonably practicable for the vehicle to wait otherwise than in a specified road while such gate or barrier is opened or closed;

• (d) to enable the vehicle, if it cannot conveniently be used for such purpose in any road not being a specified road, to be used in connection with—

• (i) any building, repair or demolition operations;

• (ii) the removal of any obstruction to traffic;

• (iii) the maintenance, improvement or reconstruction of a specified road;

• (iv) the discharge of the functions of the holder of a licence granted under Article 10(1) of the Electricity (Northern Ireland) Order 1992[^f00005] by or on behalf of the holder; or

• (v) the laying, erection, alteration or repair of any telecommunication apparatus as defined in section 4(3) of the Telecommunications Act 1984[^f00006].

• (2) For the purpose of paragraph (1)(a) a vehicle shall be deemed to wait for more than 2 minutes in the same place if any one part of the carriageway is below any part of the vehicle or its load (if any) throughout a period exceeding 2 minutes whether or not the vehicle is moved during that period.

• (3) The provisions of Article 2 shall not apply to a vehicle—

• (a) being used in an emergency for fire brigade, ambulance or police purposes;

• (b) being used in the service of a statutory undertaker or a government department in pursuance of statutory powers or duties, if the vehicle cannot conveniently be used for such service in any other road;

• (c) where the person in control of it—

• (i) is required by law to stop;

• (ii) is obliged to stop in order to prevent an accident; or

• (iii) is prevented from proceeding by circumstances outside his control; or

• (d) the driver of which is acting upon the direction or with the permission of a constable in uniform or of a traffic warden.

Revocations

4

The Orders described in Schedule 2 are hereby revoked.

SCHEDULE 1

1

Barrack Street, Armagh — both sides

2

Friary Road, Armagh (from a point approximately 15 metres

3

Friary Road, Armagh (from its northern junction with Newry Road

4

Gaol Square, Armagh — both sides

5

Newry Road, Armagh (from a point approximately 15 metres east of its junction with Newry Road Roundabout to that junction) — both sides

6

Newry Road Roundabout, Armagh

7

Scotch Street, Armagh (from a point approximately 15 metres north-west of its junction with Scotch Street Roundabout to that junction) — both sides

8

Scotch Street Roundabout, Armagh

9

The Mall West, Armagh (from a point approximately 45 metres north-west of its junction with Gaol Square to that junction) — both sides

10

Albert Bridge, Belfast — both sides

11

Albertbridge Road, Belfast — both sides

12

Albert Square, Belfast (southern carriageway) — both sides

13

Andersonstown Road, Belfast — north side

14

Andersonstown Road, Belfast — south side

15

Annadale Embankment, Belfast (from its junction with Ormeau Road to its junction with Elgin Street) — both sides

16

Ann Street, Belfast (from its junction with Oxford Street and Donegall Quay to its junction with Victoria Street) — both sides

17

Antrim Road, Belfast (from its junction with Carlisle Circus to the mid-point of Bellevue Bridge) — both sides

18

Balmoral Avenue, Belfast — both sides

19

Beersbridge Road, Belfast (from its junction with Bloomfield Road to its junction with Woodstock Road) — south side

20

Beersbridge Road, Belfast (from its junction with Woodstock Road to its junction with Bloomfield Avenue) — north side

21

Belmont Road, Belfast (from its junction with Dundela Avenue to its junction with Holywood Road) — south side

21

Belmont Road, Belfast (from its junction with Holywood Road to its junction with Ranfurly Drive) — north side

23

Botanic Avenue, Belfast — west side

24

Botanic Avenue, Belfast — east side

25

Boucher Road, Belfast — west side

26

Boucher Road, Belfast — east side

27

Bradbury Place, Belfast — both sides

28

Bridge End, Belfast — both sides

29

Bridge Street, Belfast — both sides

30

Broadway, Belfast (from its junction with the roundabout at Donegall Road/Motorway M1 to its junction with Falls Road) — west side

31

Broadway, Belfast (from its junction with Falls Road to its junction with the roundabout at Donegall Road/Motorway M1) — east side

32

Bruce Street, Belfast — both sides

33

Carlisle Circus, Belfast

34

Carrick Hill, Belfast — both sides

35

Castle Street, Belfast (from its junction with King Street to its junction with College Avenue) — south side

36

Castle Street, Belfast (from its junction with Millfield to its junction with King Street) — north side

37

Castlereagh Road, Belfast — south-west side

38

Castlereagh Road, Belfast — north-east side

39

Castlereagh Street, Belfast — both sides

40

Chichester Street, Belfast — both sides

41

Clifton Street, Belfast — both sides

42

Cliftonville Road, Belfast — north-east side

43

Cliftonville Road, Belfast — south-west side

44

College Avenue, Belfast — both sides

45

College Park, Belfast (from its junction with Botanic Avenue to its junction with University Avenue) — north side

46

College Park, Belfast (from its junction with University Avenue to its junction with Botanic Avenue) — south side

47

College Square East, Belfast — both sides

48

Corporation Street, Belfast — both sides

49

Cregagh Road, Belfast — both sides

50

Cromac Square, Belfast (north end) — both sides

51

Cromac Street, Belfast — both sides

52

Custom House Square, Belfast — both sides

53

Dee Street, Belfast (from its junction with Newtownards Road to its junction with Medway Street) — west side

54

Dee Street, Belfast (from its junction with Severn Street to its junction with Newtownards Road) — east side

55

Dee Street, Belfast (from its junction with Severn Street to its junction with Sydenham Road) — both sides

56

Divis Street, Belfast — both sides

57

Dock Street, Belfast (from its junction with York Street to its junction with Garmoyle Street) — both sides

58

Donegall Quay, Belfast (from its junction with Albert Square to its junction with Queen’s Square) — both sides

59

Donegall Quay, Belfast (from its junction with Corporation Square to its junction with Albert Square) — east side

60

Donegall Quay, Belfast (western carriageway) — both sides

61

Donegall Road, Belfast — north side

62

Donegall Road, Belfast — south side

63

Donegall Square North, Belfast — both sides

64

Donegall Square South, Belfast — both sides

65

Donegall Street, Belfast — both sides

66

Dublin Road, Belfast — both sides

67

Dunbar Link, Belfast — both sides

68

Durham Street, Belfast, including Boyne Bridge — both sides

69

East Bridge Street, Belfast — both sides

70

Falls Road, Belfast — both sides

71

Fisherwick Place, Belfast — both sides

72

Garmoyle Street, Belfast — both sides

73

Grand Parade, Belfast — both sides

74

Great George’s Street, Belfast (from its junction with Nelson Street to its junction with York Street) — both sides

75

Great Patrick Street, Belfast (from its junction with Nelson Street to its junction with York Street) — both sides

76

Great Victoria Street, Belfast — both sides

77

Grosvenor Road, Belfast — both sides

78

Hawthornden Way, Belfast — both sides

79

Holywood Road, Belfast (from its junction with Sydenham Avenue to its junction with Newtownards Road) — south-east side

80

Holywood Road, Belfast (from its junction with Newtownards Road to its junction with Sydenham Avenue) — north-west side

81

Howard Street, Belfast — both sides

82

Kingsway, Belfast (from its junction with Upper Lisburn Road to the western extremity of the M1 Overbridge) — both sides

83

Knock Road, Belfast (from its junction with Upper Newtownards Road to a point approximately 20 metres north-east of its junction with Knockmount Park) — both sides

84

Ladas Drive, Belfast — both sides

85

Lisburn Road, Belfast (including the flyover bridge at Stockman’s Lane) — both sides

86

Malone Road, Belfast — both sides

87

May Street, Belfast (from its junction with Victoria Street and Cromac Street to its junction with Adelaide Street and Donegall Square East) — both sides

88

Middlepath Street, Belfast — both sides

89

Millfield, Belfast — both sides

90

Milltown Road, Belfast — both sides

91

Mountpottinger Road, Belfast — both sides

92

Nelson Street, Belfast (from its junction with Dock Street to its junction with Dunbar Link) — both sides

93

Newtownards Road, Belfast — both sides

94

North Road, Belfast (from its junction with Upper Newtownards Road to its junction with Grand Parade) — both sides

95

North Street, Belfast (from its junction with Union Street to its junction with Royal Avenue) — north-east side

96

North Street, Belfast (from its junction with Royal Avenue to its junction with Winetavern Street) — south-west side

97

Oldpark Road, Belfast (from its southern junction with Torrens Avenue to its junction with Crumlin Road) — north-east side

98

Oldpark Road, Belfast (from its junction with Crumlin Road to its southern junction with Torrens Avenue) — south-west side

99

Ormeau Avenue, Belfast — north-east side

100

Ormeau Road, Belfast — both sides

101

Oxford Street, Belfast — both sides

102

Parkway, Belfast (including the roundabout at Belmont Road) — both sides

103

Peter’s Hill, Belfast — north side

104

Peter’s Hill, Belfast — south side

105

Queen Elizabeth Bridge, Belfast and the carriageway leading therefrom to Middlepath Street — both sides

106

Queen’s Bridge, Belfast — both sides

107

Queen’s Square, Belfast

108

Ravenhill Road, Belfast (from its junction with Dublin Street to its junction with Ormeau Road) — east side

109

Ravenhill Road, Belfast (from its junction with Ormeau Road to its junction with Ormeau Embankment) — west side

110

Ravenhill Road, Belfast (from its junction with Ormeau Embankment and Dublin Street to its junction with Albertbridge Road, but excluding that length of road from its western junction with Albertbridge Road to a point approximately 100 metres south of that junction) — both sides and all sides of the traffic islands

111

Ridgeway Street, Belfast — north side

112

Saintfield Road, Belfast (from its junction with Ormeau Road to its junction with Cairnshill Road) — both sides

113

Sandown Road, Belfast (from its junction with Upper Newtownards Road to its junction with King’s Road) — both sides

114

Sandy Row, Belfast — west side

115

Sandy Row, Belfast — east side

116

Shaftesbury Square, Belfast — east, south and west sides

117

Shankill Road, Belfast — north side

118

Shankill Road, Belfast — south side

119

Shore Road, Belfast (from its junction with York Road to a point approximately 81 metres north of Gray’s Lane) — west side

120

Shore Road, Belfast (northbound carriageway, from a point approximately 81 metres north of Gray’s Lane to a point approximately 20 metres south of Mount Street) — both sides

121

Shore Road, Belfast (southbound carriageway, from a point approximately 20 metres south of Mount Street to a point approximately 81 metres north of Gray’s Lane) — both sides

122

Shore Road, Belfast (from a point approximately 81 metres north of Gray’s Lane to its junction with York Road) — east side

123

Springfield Road, Belfast (from its junction with Falls Road to its junction with Norglen Parade) — south side

124

Springfield Road, Belfast (from its junction with Norglen Parade to its junction with Falls Road) — north side

125

Stranmillis Road, Belfast — both sides

126

Stockman’s Lane, Belfast (from its junction with Lisburn Road to its junction with the roundabout at M1 Motorway) — both sides

127

Sydenham By-Pass, Belfast, including Bridge End Flyover and off-slip road — both sides

128

Sydenham Road, Belfast (from its junction with Dee Street to the boundary of Belfast Harbour Commissioner’s property) — both sides

129

University Avenue, Belfast (from its junction with Rugby Road to its junction with College Park) — south side

130

University Avenue, Belfast (from its junction with College Park to its junction with Rugby Road) — north side

131

University Road, Belfast — both sides

132

Upper Lisburn Road, Belfast — both sides

133

Upper Newtownards Road, Belfast (from its junction with Newtownards Road to its junction with Comber Road) — north side

134

Upper Newtownards Road, Belfast (from a point approximately 235 metres west of its junction with Reaville Park to its junction with Newtownards Road) — south side

135

Victoria Street, Belfast — both sides

136

Waring Street, Belfast (from its junction with Victoria Street to its junction with Tomb Street) — north side

137

Waring Street, Belfast (from its junction with Victoria Street to its junction with Custom House Square) — south side

138

Waring Street, Belfast (from its junction with Victoria Street to its junction with Bridge Street) — both sides

139

Wellington Place, Belfast — both sides

140

Westlink, Belfast, including slip roads and roundabouts — both sides

141

Whitla Street, Belfast — both sides

142

Woodstock Road, Belfast — both sides

143

Woodvale Road, Belfast — north and east sides

144

Woodvale Road, Belfast — south and west sides

145

York Link, Belfast — both sides

146

York Road, Belfast — east side

147

York Road, Belfast — west side

148

York Street, Belfast — both sides

149

Ballygowan Road, Castlereagh (from its junction with Upper Knockbreda Road to its junction with Glen Road) — west side

150

Ballygowan Road, Castlereagh (from its junction with Glen Road to its junction with Knock Road) — east side

151

Comber Road, Dundonald (from its junction with Old Dundonald Road to its junction with Upper Newtownards Road) — south-west side

152

Comber Road, Dundonald (from its junction with Upper Newtownards Road to its junction with Graham’s Bridge Road) — north-east side

153

Upper Newtownards Road, Dundonald (from its junction with Comber Road to its junction with Dunlady Road) — north side

154

Upper Newtownards Road, Dundonald (from its junction with Robb’s Road to a point approximately 235 metres west of its junction with Reaville Park) — south side

155

Buncrana Road, Londonderry (from is junction with Pennyburn Pass to a point approximately 525 metres north-west of that junction) — south-west side

156

Carlisle Square, Londonderry

157

Craigavon Bridge, Londonderry (both decks, and including the connecting roads leading from Duke Street, Foyle Road, and Spencer Road, to the lower deck of the bridge) — all sides

158

Duke Street, Londonderry (including the roundabout at its north end) — both sides

159

Foyle Embankment, Londonderry (including Harbour Square and Foyleside Roundabouts but excluding service road to Victoria Market car park) — both sides

160

Foyle Road, Londonderry (from its junction with Tillies Brae to its junction with Foyle Embankment) — both sides

161

Foyle Street, Londonderry (from its junction with Water Street to its junction with Whittaker Street) — both sides

162

Glendermott Road, Londonderry — both sides

163

John Street, Londonderry — both sides

164

King Street, Londonderry — both sides

165

Limavady Road, Londonderry (from its junction with Nelson Drive to its junction with King Street) — both sides

166

Madam’s Bank Road, Londonderry (from its junction with Culmore Roundabout to its junction with Caw Roundabout and including Foyle Bridge) — both sides

167

Shipquay Place, Londonderry (from its junction with Shipquay Gate to its junction with Whittaker Street) — both sides

168

Strand Road, Londonderry — both sides

169

Victoria Road, Londonderry (from its junction with Craigavon Bridge to a point approximately 170 metres south-west of that junction) — both sides

170

Waterside Link, Londonderry — both sides

171

Whittaker Street, Londonderry — both sides

172

Antrim Road, Newtownabbey (from the mid-point of Bellevue Bridge to its junction with Sandyknowes Roundabout) — both sides

173

Ballyclare Road, Newtownabbey (from its junction with Antrim Road to its junction with Ballycraigy Road) — both sides

174

Shore Road, Newtownabbey (from a point approximately 20 metres south of its junction with Mount Street to a point approximately 13 metres south-west of its junction with Silverstream Banks) — both sides — (but excluding the following lengths of road which adjoin Shore Road on its western side and which are also known as Shore Road:

• (a) a length of approximately 210 metres which commences immediately to the north of the Motorway M5/Shore Road roundabout;

• (b) a length of approximately 227 metres which commences at a point approximately 27 metres to the south of the Station Road/Shore Road roundabout; and

• (c) a length of approximately 676 metres which commences at a >point approximately 52 metres to the north-east of the Shore Road/Glenville Road junction)

SCHEDULE 2

Title	Year and No.
Urban Clearways (Belfast) (No. 2) Order (Northern Ireland) 1981	S.R. 1981 No. 304
Urban Clearways (Belfast) (No. 2) (Amendment) Order (Northern Ireland) 1982	S.R. 1982 No. 154
Urban Clearways (Belfast) (No. 2) Order (Amendment No. 2) (Northern Ireland) 1982	S.R. 1982 No. 197
Urban Clearways (Belfast) (No. 2) Order (Amendment) Order (Northern Ireland) 1983	S.R. 1983 No. 149
Urban Clearways (Belfast) (No. 2) Order (Amendment) Order (Northern Ireland) 1985	S.R. 1985 No. 246
Urban Clearways (Londonderry) Order (Northern Ireland) 1986	S.R. 1986 No. 4
Urban Clearways (Belfast) (No. 2) Order (Amendment) Order (Northern Ireland) 1987	S.R. 1987 No. 371
Urban Clearways (Londonderry) (Amendment) Order (Northern Ireland) 1988	S.R. 1988 No. 227
Urban Clearways (Londonderry) (Amendment) Order (Northern Ireland) 1992	S.R. 1992 No. 282
Urban Clearways (Belfast) (No. 2) Order (Amendment) Order (Northern Ireland) 1993	S.R. 1993 No. 385
Urban Clearways (Belfast) (No. 2) Order (Amendment) Order (Northern Ireland) 1994	S.R. 1994 No. 458
Urban Clearways (Belfast) (No. 2) Order (Amendment) Order (Northern Ireland) 1995	S.R. 1995 No. 121
Urban Clearways (Belfast) (No. 2) Order (Amendment No. 2) Order (Northern Ireland) 1995	S.R. 1995 No. 328
Urban Clearways (Belfast) (No. 2) Order (Amendment No. 3) Order (Northern Ireland) 1995	S.R. 1995 No. 390
Urban Clearways (Armagh) Order (Northern Ireland) 1995	S.R. 1995 No. 444
Urban Clearways (Belfast) (No. 2) Order (Amendment) Order (Northern Ireland) 1996	S.R. 1996 No. 170
Urban Clearways (Londonderry) (Amendment) Order (Northern Ireland) 1996	S.R. 1996 No. 616

Signed

Sealed with the Official Seal of the Department of the Environment on

J. Carlisle — Assistant Secretary — 2nd April 1997.

Explanatory note

(This note is not part of the Order.)

This Order revokes and re-enacts with minor amendments the provisions of the Urban Clearways (Belfast) (No. 2) Order (Northern Ireland) 1981 as amended, the Urban Clearways (Londonderry) Order (Northern Ireland) 1986 as amended and the Urban Clearways (Armagh) Order (Northern Ireland) 1995. The effect of the Order is to prohibit the waiting by vehicles with certain exemptions on the carriageways of the roads and lengths of road specified in Schedule 1 (commonly referred to as “clearways”) during peak traffic periods from Monday to Friday and in some cases prohibits the waiting by vehicles at any time.

The amendments are to the descriptions of clearways in Ballygowan Road, Castlereagh; Craigavon Bridge, Foyle Embankment, Foyle Road, Foyle Street, Limavady Road, Strand Road and Victoria Road, Londonderry; Ballyclare Road, Newtownabbey; and to clearways in the following roads in Belfast: Albert Square, Antrim Road, Beersbridge Road, Botanic Avenue, Broadway, Castlereagh Road, College Park, Cregagh Road, Custom House Square, Dee Street, Donegall Quay, Donegall Street, Knock Road, Malone Road, Oldpark Road, Queen’s Square, Sydenham Road, Upper Lisburn Road, Upper Newtownards Road and Waring Street.

In Belfast, Upper Library Street is now re-named Carrick Hill; the Inner Ring Road is now re-described as Dunbar Link and Great Patrick Street; and the Outer Ring Road is now re-described as Hawthornden Way and Parkway.

In Londonderry, Foyle Bridge and its approach roads are now re-described as Madam’s Bank Road (including Foyle Bridge); Mill Street is now re-named Waterside Link; and the roundabout at the west end of Craigavon Bridge is now named Carlisle Square.

Any person who acts in contravention of the Order shall be guilty of an offence under the Road Traffic (Northern Ireland) Order 1981 and shall be liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding level 3 on the standard scale (£1,000).

Traffic signs indicating the effect of the Order have been erected on the roads.

Footnotes

[^f00001]: S.I. 1981/154 (N.I. 1); see Article 2(2) for the definition of “Department” and Article 2(2A) (as inserted by S.I. 1995/2994 (N.I. 18) Schedule 3 Part 1 paragraph 1(2))

[^f00002]: 1967 c. 37 (N.I.)

[^f00003]: S.I. 1977/596 (N.I. 7)

[^f00004]: 1953 c. 36

[^f00005]: S.I. 1992/231 (N.I. 1)

[^f00006]: 1984 c. 12