Traffic Management Orders

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What is a Traffic Management Order?

A Traffic Management Order (TMO) is the legal procedure by which all Councils have to comply to effect new - or make amendments to - traffic management and parking schemes, emergency road closures or temporary restrictions within their borough boundaries.

TMOs provide the means by which consultation is carried out with statutory consultees e.g. Fire Brigade, Police and Transport associations, as well as the general public.  A draft order detailing the scheme is sent to the statutory consultees and an advertisement is placed in the London Gazette and the Surrey Comet.  We also place notices on street lighting columns in the roads affected by the proposals.

Following publication of the advertisement, there is a period of 21 days in which anybody can make an objection or representation against the published proposals. Details of how to make an objection or representation are given in the advertisement. If there are no objections, the Council will 'make' (i.e. confirm) the order, place another advertisement in the local paper and implement the changes.

Copies of draft and made orders are available for inspection at a local library within the area affected and also at:

Environment & Place
The Information and Advice Centre
Guildhall 2
Kingston upon Thames
KT1 1EU

Current Traffic Management Orders being processed

There are various types of TMOs; permanent, experimental, emergency and minor. Only TMOs that deal with experimental or permanent traffic management or parking schemes are listed here.