Parking ban extends to Waltham Forest
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• Night parking in the street for heavy lorries will soon be banned in the London Borough of Waltham Forest whose scheme has been approved in principle, by the Greater London Council's north-east area board.
The ban follows GLC guidelines and will be on all vehicles over 2+ tons unladen weight, will operate between 6.30 pm and 8 am throughout the week and will cover the whole of the borough. Signposting in the area will cost the GLC an estimated £19,500.
Waltham Forest Council submitted the scheme to answer residents complaints and road safety and access to premises.
This followed a survey last year when 383 lorries were found parked in the streets of Waltham Forest and only 25 lorry spaces were occupied in the borough's lorry park.
A pilot lorry-parking ban has been operating successfully in part of Tower Hamlets for the past 18 months and in the Greater London Borough of Haringey, which adjoins Waltham Forest, they have operated a borough-wide parking ban in residential streets from December.
The parking ban times are likely to cause some confusion because in Haringey vehicles are banned from street parking between 9 pm and 7 am on weekdays. The Waltham Forest ban is likely to take effect early in 1974 by which time additional off-street parking will have been provided.