Suffolk County Council (District of Babergh) (Stopping, waiting and loading prohibitions and restrictions and on-street parking places) (Map-based) Order 2019 (Parish of East Bergholt) (Flatford road) (C419) (Flatford) (C421) (Exemptions) (Variation no.33) 202-
Suffolk County Council proposes to make the above order under Sections 1(1) and (2), 2(1) to (3), 4(2) and Part IV of Schedule 9 of the Road Traffic Regulation Act 1984 (hereinafter referred to as “the Act of 1984”), as amended, which would introduce a new Article 10A into the abovenamed 2019 Order.
The effect of this would be to allow exemptions to the restriction preventing parking on restricted roads along on Flatford (C421), East Bergholt, from its junction with Flatford Road (C419) heading in a southernly, then southeasterly direction for whole of its length for a distance of 490 metres, at any time.
The exemptions apply to the following vehicles to enable agricultural duties to be undertaken to the adjacent fields across the river (a location inaccessible by vehicles) and to allow:
- The River Stour Trust to undertake maintenance work to the lock, across the river Stour.
- The Royal Society for the Protection of Birds to undertake maintenance duties to their property;
- The Environment Agency to undertake maintenance / surveying of the river; and
- The National Trust to undertake maintenance duties to their property.
This order is made further to the Suffolk County Council (District Of Babergh) (Stopping, Waiting and Loading Prohibitions and Restrictions and On-Street Parking Places) (Map Based) Order 2019 (Parish Of East Bergholt) (Flatford Road) (C419) (Flatford) (C421) (Prohibition of Waiting And Two-Way Traffic and Revocation) (Variation No.28) 2025 which came into effect on 24 March 2025 and intended to introduce these exemptions for the above-mentioned vehicles.
Copies of the draft order, map showing the roads affected and the Council’s reasons for the proposals, may be seen with advance notice at the address below, 9am - 5pm, Monday to Friday.
Suffolk County Council
Endeavour House
8 Russell Road
Ipswich IP1 2BX
Also, at:
Capel St Mary Library
Village Hall
The Street
Capel St Mary IP9 2EF
- Tuesday, 9am-12:30pm and 2pm-5:30pm
- Wednesday and Thursday, 9am-12:30pm
- Friday, 2pm-5:30pm
- Saturday, 9am-3pm
- Sunday, 10am-3pm.
