Remembrance Sunday and Commemoration Events

Where an event requires roads to be closed to maintain safety either for a parade or due to the numbers of those attending, the closure of these roads will need to be contracted out to a Traffic Management Company and funded by the event organiser.

To manage or close roads on the grounds of safety, an application and traffic management plans must be submitted to and approved by us. This then allows a legal order to be made preventing vehicles from entering the road(s) where the event is to take place. We will produce a legal road closure order for the event at no cost to the organiser. 

If event organisers are unable to secure a traffic management company to close the roads, the road closure would not be granted on the grounds of safety and the event arrangements would need to be altered to ensure the road is not impacted.

While we appreciate that this is a significant change to past events, we have a responsibility to maintain the safety of the public and ensure that events take place on the road without causing an unlawful obstruction of the highway in line with the Road Traffic Regulation Act.

Please note that while the police will aim to have a wreath layer at each Act of Remembrance, they are not able to provide police resources to manage road closures. This is consistent with other pre-planned events in that the responsibility for arranging a road closure falls to the event organiser.