Cafe barriers in town centre.
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Extract from the HIGHWAYS ACT 1980, SECTION 115.....Where it is proposed to grant permission for tables and chairs on highways from which vehicular traffic is excluded by means of a Traffic Regulation Order (i.e. pedestrian areas) the permission would normally be operative when vehicles are excluded, by the legal Order. This would be on road safety grounds. In the main tables and chairs can be situated on wide footways, providing that adequate pedestrian routes and clearances adjacent to the carriageway can be maintained.
The Council also has a responsibility to ensure that any highway is in a safe condition for use by members of the public. This duty includes the need to maintain adequate widths for pedestrians and safety margins adjacent to any carriageway for instance.
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Last photo shows stud in pavement, which is supposed to be legal limit for tables and chairs, outside cafes.
How is a blind or partially sighted person meant to navigate the rope barriers?
Now you see it................................................................................................. Now you don't.
Update July 2010, Instead of the council telling this cafe to abide by the law at a cost of £0, the council have moved the bench, further along the road at a cost of £???
Here you can see where the council has removed the bench, and placed it a few metres further along the pavement. Please let us know how much money was wasted on this.
Notice how this poor man had to go out into middle of road to pass cafe.
To the right of the above picture, you can just see the door of a truck parked on the road. If another vehicle came along now, where could he go?
This sharp corner at the Reina Cafe barrier, could injure anyone walking into it.
'A' board and barrier at ice cream shop, Robertson Street.
View of ice cream shop barriers, from other side
Stud indicates licenced limit of pavement for use by cafe.