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Highways Act 1980

This order is made by Knowsley Metropolitan Borough Council ("the authority") under section 129A of the Highways Act 1980 because it appears to the Authority that a Gating Order would be beneficial for tackling crime and anti-social behaviour in the Brook Street/Cable Road area of Whiston.

By this Order:

1. The public right of way over the passageway commencing at its junction with Brook Street, adjacent to the northerly boundary of number 6 Brook Street and continuing in a westerly direction for a distance of approximately 15 metres to the westerly boundary of the passageway at the rear of number 6 Brook Street and Murco Garage in the Metropolitan Borough of Knowsley will be restricted at all times by the erection of barriers at the easterly end of the passageway leading from Brook Street and the westerly end of the passageway leading from Cable Road.
   
2. The Authority are satisfied that:
   
   (a) Premises adjoining or adjacent to the higway are affected by crime and/or anti-social behaviour;
   (b) The existence of the highway is facilitating the persistant commission of criminal offences and/or anti-social behaviour;
   (c) It is in all circumstances expedient to make this Order for the purposes of reducing crime and/or anti-social behaviour.
   
3. The alternative route for pedestrians will be from the northerly boundary of number 6 Brook Street along Brook Street in a southerly direction for a distance of approximately 200 metres to its junction with Shaw Lane then in a south-westerly direction along Shaw Lane to its junction with Cable Road then in a northerly direction for a distance of approximately 210 metres then in a north-easterly direction for a distance of approximately 26 metres to the rear of Murco Garage and vice versa.
   
4. The occupiers of the properties numbered 6 Brook Street, 50 Cable Road,
   1 Steward Court and Murco Garage are excluded from the effects of the
   restriction referred to in paragraph 1.above.
   
5. Police, Fire and Ambulance emergency services, statutory undertakers with equipment situated over, along or in the highway, council officers and other persons authorised in writing by the council for the purposes of carrying out works of repair or maintenance to the highway or ajoining premises shall be exempt from the provisions of this Order.
   
6. The person responsible for maintaining the barriers is Knowsley Metropolitan Borough Council, Department of Regeneration and Neighbourhoods, Yorkon Building, Archway Road, Huyton, Knowsley, Merseyside, L36 9UX.

If any person desires to question the validity of this order on the ground that the council had no power to make it, or any requirement of part 8A of the Act has not been complied with in relation to the order, he or she may apply to the High Court within six weeks from the date which the order is made.

The Common Seal of the council was affixed on 5 March 2008.

Delgated Powers Reference - DRN/024/2008
Granted 16 January 2008