Issue - meetings

Forward Plan Ref: 2017/029

Contact: Hugh Potter, Team Leader – Area Operations Hub Tel: 07766 998704

Report by Director for Infrastructure Delivery (CMDE9).

Officers had been aware of local concerns for a number of years about commuter parking in the vicinity of Radley Station, particularly since the introduction of charges when the station car park was extended to meet the growing demand for parking there. Recognising that the station and associated car park management regime were leading to overspill into local streets, FGW (the operator of the station) provided funding to facilitate the introduction of restrictions and a number of meetings were held with Radley Parish Council, the local County Councillor and local residents to discuss possible options. In 2015 an informal consultation was carried out throughout the village seeking views on the extent of parking restrictions and in the light of the responses received an Experimental Order was introduced in late 2016.

The report considers responses and comments received following the implementation of that Experimental Traffic Regulation Order introducing parking restrictions in the vicinity of Radley Station.

An Experimental Traffic Order is one where formal consultation takes place after the scheme is introduced but prior to deciding whether to make the restrictions permanent.

The Cabinet Member for Environment is RECOMMENDED to:-

a) approve the making of a permanent traffic regulation order for the parking restrictions in Radley that were the subject of the Experimental Order;

b) instruct officers to liaise with Radley Parish Council to develop additional restrictions, to carry out formal consultation and to report the results of that consultation to a future meeting (if required).

Approved

Approved

The Leader of the Council considered (CMDE9) responses and comments received following the implementation of an Experimental Traffic Regulation Order in late 2016 introducing parking restrictions in the vicinity of Radley Station to address local concerns about commuter parking in the vicinity of Radley Station, particularly since the introduction of charges when the station car park had been extended to meet the growing demand for parking.

Having regard to the information contained in the report before him the Leader of the Council confirmed his decision as follows:

a)      approve the making of a permanent traffic regulation order for the parking restrictions in Radley that were the subject of the Experimental Order;

b)    instruct officers to liaise with Radley Parish Council to develop additional restrictions, to carry out formal consultation and report the results of that consultation to a future meeting (if required).

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Leader of the Council

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