EAST SUSSEX COUNTY COUNCIL 
 
LEAD MEMBER – TRANSPORT AND ENVIRONMENT 
POLICY SUMMARY
 
 
 
WAITING RESTRICTIONS AT ROAD JUNCTIONS 
PS4/1 
 
 
Purpose of Policy 
 
To provide guidance on a balance between meeting the conflicting demands of 
pedestrians, moving traffic and parked vehicles. 
 
 
Specific Policies 
 
1.  
Where waiting restrictions are implemented on a main road, they will be 
continued into side turnings, normally for a distance of 15m and where 
specific restrictions are introduced at junctions, these too will normally extend 
for 15m from the junction. 
 
2.  
The 15m distance may be reduced to 5m subject to prior consideration of the 
following traffic management needs:- 
 
[a]  
Traffic flow [junction capacity, etc]. 
[b]  
Visibility. 
[c]  
Pedestrian facilities. 
[d]  
Loading/unloading of vehicles. 
[e]  
Disabled drivers' parking. 
[f]  
Access to premises. 
[g]   The maximum effective turning space, as required by the largest 
vehicle which can reasonably be expected to make each turning 
movement allowed through the junction, not conflicting with parking 
space [assumed 2m width]. 
[h]   The visibility of the approaching flow on the major road being not less 
than the minimum stopping distance appropriate to the 85 percentile 
speed of that approaching flow [visibility measured on centre lines from 
a point 3m behind the Give Way line on the minor road]. 
 
3.  
The restrictions will prohibit waiting at all times. 
Supporting Statement 
 
Vehicles parked close to junctions may obstruct passage and visibility for both 
pedestrians and drivers. 
 
 
References – Further Information 
Date of 
 
Approval 
 
 
H&T Committee -  Agenda Item 11  
08.06.1978 
Lead Member for Transport and Environment – Agenda No 11 
24.07.2006 
 

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