LONDON LOCAL AUTHORITIES AND TRANSPORT FOR LONDON ACT 2008

<p>London Local Authorities and Transport for London Bill</p><p>The Bill gives the London Borough Councils and Transport for London (TfL) further miscellaneous powers in respect of their responsibilities as highway, traffic and street authorities. These powers include:</p><ul><li>extending various provisions covering the procedures for immobilisation, removal and disposal of illegally parked vehicles</li><li>recovering release fees from a vehicle&rsquo;s owner when an immobilisation device fixed to the vehicle by a parking attendant has been removed from the vehicle unlawfully</li><li>enabling parking attendants and other authorised officers, when carrying out their functions, to remove anything that obscures a registration mark</li><li>extending the limitation on the period within which a parking authority can serve a notice to a vehicle owner for parking contraventions</li><li>enabling councils and TfL to take additional enforcement action in cases where three or more penalty charges remain unpaid in respect of a particular vehicle</li><li>prohibiting parking on footways and verges which form part of an urban road, unless the Highway Authority has specifically allowed parking in the area</li><li>enabling the authorities to ensure that road traffic signs and traffic enforcement cameras are kept unobscured by overhanging vegetation</li><li>enabling a traffic authority to prohibit or restrict traffic on roads so that film-making may take place, including the closing of roads so that members of the public can watch the film-making.</li></ul><p>Further information can be found in the Explanatory Memorandum that accompanies the Bill.</p><p><a>Read the Explanatory Memorandum</a></p>