Issue - meetings

To consider authorising the publication of a notice of intention to designate the A556 (to its extent within the Borough), together with any adjoining street for a distance of 50 metres, as prohibited streets for the purposes of street trading.

The Committee considered a report regarding the designation of streets within the former Borough of Macclesfield as ‘prohibited’ for the purposes of street trading.

In 1983, a resolution had been passed which included the designation of the A556 (from Plumley to Altrincham), together with any adjoining street for a distance of 50 metres, as a prohibited street with effect from 7 November 1983.

Following a resolution of Macclesfield Borough Council’s Licensing Committee in November 2008 to designate all ‘A’ and ‘B’ roads within the Borough (with limited exceptions) as prohibited streets together with all adjoining streets for a distance of 50 metres, Cheshire County Council, as the Highways Authority, had been served with a notice.

As a ‘trunk’ road, the A556 was managed and maintained by the Highways Agency, which was the relevant Highway Authority in relation to this road.  Committee members agreed that, for the purposes of clarity, and for the avoidance of doubt, authorisation should be given for the publication of a notice of intention to designate the A556 as a prohibited street together with any adjoining streets within 50 metres.

RESOLVED - That, in accordance with Schedule 4 of the Local Government (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1982, authorisation be given to publish a notice of intention to designate the A556 (to its extent within the Borough), together with any adjoining street for a distance of 50 metres, as prohibited streets for the purposes of street trading.