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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/gatwick-airport-northern-runway-project-development-consent-order-2025/article-18",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2025/1054",
  "legislation_title": "The Gatwick Airport (Northern Runway Project) Development Consent Order 2025",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/gatwick-airport-northern-runway-project-development-consent-order-2025",
  "path": "article/18",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "18",
  "heading": "Traffic regulations",
  "text": "(1) Subject to the provisions of this article, from the date determined by the undertaker the order specified in column (3) of Part 3 (revocations and variations of existing traffic regulation orders) of Schedule 6 (traffic regulation measures) is to be varied or revoked as specified in the corresponding row of column (4) of that Part of that Schedule in respect of the lengths of roads specified in the corresponding row of column (2) of that Part of that Schedule.\n(2) Subject to the provisions of this article, the undertaker may at any time for the purposes of the authorised development regulate vehicular speed by imposing speed restrictions on vehicles in the manner specified in column (4) of Part 1 (speed limits) of Schedule 6 on those roads specified in columns (1) and (2) of that Part of that Schedule along the lengths and between the points specified in column (3) of that Part of that Schedule.\n(3) Subject to the provisions of this article, the undertaker may in so far as may be expedient or necessary for the purposes of or in connection with the construction, operation or maintenance of the authorised development—\n(a) revoke, amend or suspend in whole or in part any order made, or having effect as if made, under the 1984 Act;\n(b) permit, prohibit or restrict the stopping, waiting, loading or unloading of vehicles on any road;\n(c) authorise the use as a parking place of any road;\n(d) make provision as to the direction or priority of vehicular traffic on any road; and\n(e) permit or prohibit vehicular access to any road,\neither at all times or at times, on days or during such periods as may be specified by the undertaker.\n(4) The undertaker must not exercise the powers conferred by paragraphs (1), (2) or (3) of this article unless it has—\n(a) given to the chief officer of police and to the traffic authority in whose area the road is situated not less than—\n(i) 12 weeks’ (or, for airport roads, 28 days’) notice in writing of its intention so to do in the case of a prohibition, restriction or other provision intended to have effect permanently; or\n(ii) except in the case of an emergency, 4 weeks’ (or, for airport roads, 7 days’) notice in writing of its intention so to do in the case of a prohibition, restriction or other provision intended to have effect temporarily; and\n(b) advertised its intention in such manner as the traffic authority may specify in writing within 28 days of its receipt of notice of the undertaker’s intention as provided for in sub-paragraph (a)(i) or within 7 days of its receipt of notice of the undertaker’s intention in the case of sub-paragraph (a)(ii).\n(5) Before complying with the process in paragraph (4) in respect of the exercise of the power conferred by paragraph (3), the undertaker must consult—\n(a) the chief officer of police for the area in which the relevant road is situated;\n(b) the traffic authority in whose area the relevant road is situated; and\n(c) any other such persons as the undertaker considers necessary and appropriate,\nand the undertaker must take into consideration any representations made to it by any such persons.\n(6) The undertaker must not exercise the power conferred by paragraph (3) of this article without the consent of the traffic authority (such consent not to be unreasonably withheld).\n(7) Any prohibition, restriction or other provision made by the undertaker under paragraphs (1), (2) or (3)—\n(a) has effect as if duly made by, as the case may be—\n(i) the traffic authority in whose area the road is situated, as a traffic regulation order under the 1984 Act; or\n(ii) the local authority in whose area the road is situated, as an order under section 32 (power of local authorities to provide parking spaces) of the 1984 Act,\nand the instrument by which it is effected may specify savings and exemptions to which the prohibition, restriction or other provision is subject; and\n(b) is deemed to be a traffic order for the purposes of Schedule 7 (road traffic contraventions subject to civil enforcement) to the Traffic Management Act 2004.\n(8) A copy of the instrument referred to in paragraph (7)(a) must be held at the registered office address of the undertaker for inspection during normal working hours and a copy must be sent to each of Surrey County Council and West Sussex County Council.\n(9) Any prohibition, restriction or other provision made under this article may be suspended, varied or revoked by the undertaker from time to time by subsequent exercise of the powers of paragraphs (1), (2) or (3) at any time.\n(10) Provision made in respect of the roundabout circulatory carriageway at junction 9 of the M23 or accesses onto that junction pursuant to paragraph (3) can include prohibitions on its access and use by pedestrians and other forms of non-motorised users as well as vehicles.\n(11) From the date determined by the undertaker, being not before the date on which Work No. 35 (South Terminal Junction improvements) is completed and open for traffic, a speed restriction of 50mph is to be imposed on the roundabout circulatory carriageway at junction 9 of the M23 as if effected pursuant to paragraph (2).\n(12) Expressions used in this article and in the 1984 Act have the same meaning in this article as in that Act.\n(13) The powers conferred on the undertaker by this article with respect to any road have effect subject to any agreement entered into by the undertaker with any person with an interest in (or who undertakes activities in relation to) premises served by the road.\n(14) Article 53 (deemed consent) applies to an application to the traffic authority for consent under paragraph (6).\n(15) In respect of airport roads, paragraphs (4)(b), (5)(b) and (6) do not apply and paragraph (4)(a) shall be read as if it does not contain the words “and to the traffic authority”.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in art. 18(10) substituted (21.1.2026) by The Gatwick Airport (Northern Runway Project) Development Consent (Correction) Order 2026 (S.I. 2026/43), art. 1, Sch. (which affecting local non-print S.I. is replaced by printed local S.I. 2026/1055)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Art. 18 in force at 12.10.2025, see art. 1"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "Section 32 was amended by section 102 of, and Schedule 17 to, the Local Government Act 1985 (c. 51) and section 168(1) of, and paragraph 39 of Schedule 8 to, the New Roads and Street Works Act 1991 (c. 22)."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "2004 c. 18."
    }
  ],
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2025/1054/article/18",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T21:11:10.827794+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}