115 Provision of areas for parking heavy goods vehicles etc

115  Provision of areas for parking heavy goods vehicles etc

(1)     A highway authority may provide on land adjoining, or in the vicinity of, a highway or proposed highway for which they are or, as the case may be, will be the highway authority an area, which may be used for all or any of the following purposes:

(a)     the parking of heavy goods vehicles;

(b)     the transfer of goods to or from any such vehicle from or to any other vehicle; and

(c)     the temporary storage of goods which have been or are to be carried or hauled by heavy goods vehicles.

An area provided under this section is in this Act referred to as a “lorry area”.

(2)     For the purpose of enabling a lorry area to be used as mentioned in subsection (1) above, the highway authority by whom the area is provided may erect buildings and execute works on the area for the purpose of providing all or any of the following:

(a)     parking places for heavy goods vehicles and, if the lorry area is to be used for either or both of the purposes mentioned in subsection (1)(b) and (c) above, parking places for other vehicles

Powered by Lexis+®

Popular documents