What TROs are
A Traffic Regulation Order (TRO) is the legal document required to support a range of measures, which govern or restrict the use of public roads, including:
- Double yellow lines
- One-way streets
- Banned turns
- Bus lanes
Why we need TROs
UK law requires that TROs be in place to enable the police or, in the case of yellow lines and bus lanes, the council, to enforce these restrictions.
To create a TRO
- Consultation with the emergency services and other public bodies takes place. Local interest groups such as residents and traders may be consulted where appropriate.
- Advertisement of the TRO then takes place by placing a notice in the local press and displaying notices in the roads affected. Objections are then considered through the appropriate council procedure before it is decided how the matter will be taken forward.
- The TRO will then be formally made and introduced. The entire process can take many months to complete especially if objections result in the TRO being changed and re-advertised.
TROs can remain in operation indefinitely. If the council needs to modify or revoke a TRO, it must follow the same procedure as was used to create the TRO.
How to comment or object on a TRO proposal
Refer to the 'How to object' section which can be found in the 'Notice of Proposals' of any advertised TRO.
Proposed prohibition of driving: Abingdon Road, Speedwell (Hillfields ward), ref CAE/RGW/P-1317
This consultation runs from Thursday 15 May 2025 to Friday 6 June 2025.
How to object: See 'Notice of Proposal'
- pdf Statement of Reasons(187 KB)
- pdf Draft order(170 KB)
- pdf Notice of Proposal(135 KB)
- pdf Existing prohibition of dirving road plan: RS19022-F-PTRO-01(396 KB)
- pdf Proposed prohibition of driving road plan: RS19022-F-PTRO-01 REV A (397 KB)
Proposed Road hump: The boulevard (Hengrove and Whitchurch Park ward), ref CAE/RGW/P-1316 (C)
This consultation runs from Thursday 8 May 2025 to Friday 30 May 2025.
How to object: see ‘Notice of Proposal'
- pdf Statement of Reasons: RH, P-1316 (C)(91 KB)
- pdf Notice of Proposal: RH, P-1316 (C)(78 KB)
- pdf Proposed plan: RH, P-1316 (C)(30 KB)
Proposed (A) one-way / contraflow cycle lane and (B) waiting restrictions, The Boulevard (Hengrove and Whitchurch Park ward), ref CAE/RGWT/P-1316 (A),(B)
This consultation runs from Thursday 8 May 2025 to Friday 30 May 2025.
How to object: see ‘Notice of Proposal'
- pdf Statement of Reasons, P-1316 (A) one-way(91 KB)
- pdf Statement of Reasons, P-1316 (B) waiting(90 KB)
- pdf Notice of Proposal, P-1316 (A) and (B)(109 KB)
- pdf Draft Order, one-way, P-1316 (A)(160 KB)
- pdf Draft Order, waiting, P-1316 (B)(358 KB)
- pdf Existing one-way plan, P-1316 (A)(413 KB)
- pdf Proposed one-way plan, P-1316 (A)(134 KB)
- pdf Existing waiting plan, P-1316 (B)(1.03 MB)
- pdf Proposed waiting plan, P-1316 (B)(247 KB)
Various Roads Citywide cycle parking places- Cycle hangars Minor Order 2025
How to object: The documents uploaded are for information only. Details are provided within the ‘Notice of Making' with regard to the 6 week High Court challenge period following the sealing of the order.
Proposed plans:
- pdf E23062-06 - St Werburghs Road(265 KB)
- pdf E23062-09 - West View Road(304 KB)
- pdf E23062-12 - Carrington Road(278 KB)
- pdf E23062-14 - Beech Rd(281 KB)
- pdf E23062-20 - Hampstead Road(274 KB)
- pdf E23062-28 - Beaufort Road(279 KB)
- pdf E23062-31 - Wentworth Road(265 KB)
- pdf E23062-40 - Cossham Road(266 KB)
Variation of Charges for Residents Parking Schemes, ref: CAE/NMT/P/1304
Notice of Variation Powers to vary parking charges.
The notice of variation process allows Local Authorities to vary parking charges without undertaking public consultation.
Legal powers within sections 35C (on-street) and 46A (off-street) of the Road Traffic Regulation Act 1984, as amended, allow Local Authorities to increase or decrease parking charges after publishing notice of the changes 21 days before the new parking charge(s) come into effect.
This notice procedure is not a public consultation. Objections, comments and representations are not invited. The decision to increase parking charges was made at the Transport and Connectivity Policy Committee meeting on 12 September 2024.
Notices of variation publicising an increase to parking charges within Bristol, to come into effect on 17 February, are shown below for notification purposes only.
For information only.
Notices of Variation Residents Parking Schemes
- pdf No.1 Bower Ashton residents parking area(161 KB)
- pdf No.2 Bedminster East residents parking area (192 KB)
- pdf No.3 Chatsworth Road and Edward Road residents permit parking area (170 KB)
- pdf No.4 Cheswick Village residents parking area(151 KB)
- pdf No.5 Clifton East residents parking area(152 KB)
- pdf No.6 Clifton Village residents parking area(199 KB)
- pdf No.7 Cliftonwood and Hotwells residents parking area(222 KB)
- pdf No.8 Cotham residents parking area(168 KB)
- pdf No.9 Cotham North residents parking area(184 KB)
- pdf No.10 Easton and St.Phillips residents parking area(218 KB)
- pdf No.11 Kingsdown residents parking area(161 KB)
- pdf No.12 Montpelier residents parking area(162 KB)
- pdf No.13 Pitlochry Close residents permit parking area (154 KB)
- pdf No.14 Redcliff residents parking area (174 KB)
- pdf No.15 Redland residents parking area (170 KB)
- pdf No.16 Southville residents parking area (192 KB)
- pdf No.17 Spike Island residents parking area (163 KB)
- pdf No.18 St. Pauls residents parking area (176 KB)
Various roads, Easton, Eastville and Lawrence Hill wards, City of Bristol: stopping prohibitions and parking places minor order 2025
The City Council of Bristol hereby gives NOTICE that on 5th June 2025 it made a minor traffic order, which varied the City Council of Bristol (Various Roads, Easton Area, Easton, Eastville and Lawrence Hill Wards, City of Bristol) (Prohibition and Restriction of Waiting) (Prohibition of Stopping) (Loading Places) (Car Club Parking Places) (Disabled Persons' Parking Places) Order 2022, and which relates solely to one or more parking places provided by means of stands or racks for bicycles pursuant to section 63 of the Road Traffic Regulation 1984 Act, as amended.
The effect of the order is to authorise parking places for the waiting of cycles to be used at all times so as to provide the necessary part of the highway in which cycle parking hangars will be installed.
The cycles parking places will each be 2.6 metres in length by 2.1 metres in width and aligned parallel to the kerb on the carriageway at the locations as specified in the Schedule to this Notice.
The hangars will provide secure parking for pedal cycles and are for the use of persons who have paid the relevant subscription fee in order to hire an allocated space in a cycle hangar which is being operated as part of a community scheme approved by the City Council.
The order will come into operation on 23 June 2025 and copy thereof, together with plans, a copy of the order being varied, and a Statement of the Council's Reasons for making the order may be inspected (in paper and digital format) at:
Citizen Service Point,
100 Temple Street,
Bristol,
BS1 6AG
10am to 4pm, Monday to Friday, until July 18 2025.
If you wish to make a legal challenge to this order or believe that it does not follow the rules in the Road Traffic Regulation Act 1984, you can apply to the High Court to review it. You must do this by July 18 2025.
Local Transport Traffic Regulation Orders TRO Comments (100 TS) A. Hearn
PO Box 3399
Director: Economy of Place
Bristol BS1 9NE
For information only.