Tindal Square - Traffic Regulation Order

In order to bring the scheme to fruition a number of changes to the road network are required. 

To formalise the required changes to the road network, a ‘Traffic Regulation Order’ (TRO) is needed. TROs are legal documents that restrict or prohibit the use of the highway network. A number of changes are proposed for traffic entering the city centre:

• Delivery vehicles will not be able to enter the High Street area from either New Street or Duke Street via Tindal Square, with the direction of flow for delivery vehicles reversed with all vehicles entering the Hight Street area via Baddow Road and exiting via New Street. This combined with changes to delivery times and alterations to the rising bollards (which will only now lower on request) will give greater control over the types, size and numbers of vehicles entering the area. 
• Utilising Baddow Road as the access point will mean that for vehicles denied access to the High Street area there is a route through Barrack Square and Friars Walk back onto Parkway without having to reverse or turn around.
• Waiting and loading restrictions along New Street between Church Street and Waterloo Lane will remove the potential for vehicles entering and exiting Waterloo Lane being hindered by parked vehicles.
• To further control vehicle movements within the High Street area, a weight limit of 7.5t will be implemented along the entire length of the High Street, Moulsham Street north of Baddow Road, Springfield Road west of King Meadow Roundabout, and Tindal Square. This will help protect historic structures such as Stone Bridge over the River Can, reduce the regular damage that occurs to street furniture and street lighting equipment and control the maintenance burden of heavy vehicles passing over and damaging the fabric of the public realm area. 
• As the New Street/Waterloo Lane junction cannot accommodate turning movements by large vehicles and the proposed prohibition of motor vehicles order on Tindal Square will prevent any through traffic, a 9.5m length prohibition is to be implemented on New Street, south of its junction with Legg Street. This shall prevent any larger vehicles travelling southbound on New Street from getting stuck at the New Street/Tindal Square interface as there is no available turning location at this point. 
• The northern section of Tindal Street, which is currently two way (to facilitate vehicles exiting the shopping centre service yard) will be changed to one way.  Vehicles leaving the service yard shall be required to turn right onto Tindal Street, joining Parkway from Bellmead.
• A ‘No Waiting at Any Time’ restriction will be implemented at the eastern end of Barrack Square to visually separate the vehicle and pedestrian section of Barrack Square leading to Moulsham Street to prevent vehicles travelling along the pedestrian section. 
• The current prohibition of cycling along the High Street will remain in place, however cycling will be allowed through the Tindal Square area as this provides an important east-west route connecting multiple existing cycle routes to the university, rail station, Chelmer Village, Springfield, Broomfield and routes south around the High Street into Great Baddow and Moulsham.

For more information see the site notice.

Full details on the plans can be seen on the TRO webpage

Anyone wishing to object to the proposed scheme should send their objection to TrafficRegulation.Order@essexhighways.org quoting reference TRAF/6966 by 19 March 2021.