Issue - meetings

Forward Plan Ref: 2019/147

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

Report by Interim Director for Community Operations (CMDE4).

Provision of Disabled Persons’ Parking Places is reviewed when requested by members of the public with specific proposals assessed applying national regulations and guidance on the suitability of providing new bays or amending or removing existing ones.

The report presents objections received to a statutory consultation to remove, amend and introduce disabled persons parking places (DPPPs) at various locations in Oxford put forward following requests from residents, including – where a new place has been requested - an assessment of eligibility, applying the national guidelines on the provision of such parking places.

The Cabinet Member for Environment is RECOMMENDED to approve the proposed removal and provision of Disabled Persons’ Parking Places as advertised with the exception of the proposal to remove the parking place at Kingston Road pending a further assessment regarding its use.

Approved

The Cabinet Member for Environment considered objections received to a statutory consultation to remove, amend and introduce disabled persons parking places (DPPPs) at various locations in Oxford put forward following requests from residents, including – where a new place had been requested - an assessment of eligibility, applying the national guidelines on the provision of such parking places.

Councillor Howson referred to the Kingston Road site and the objection received from a disabled resident who does use it. He recognised that other residents had supported removal on the grounds that it was not required and should be available as a resident parking space and therefore supported the recommendation for retention pending a further assessment of its use by blue badge holders.

Having regard to the information set out in the report and the representations made to her at the meeting the Cabinet Member for Environment confirmed her decision as follows:

to approve the proposed removal and provision of Disabled Persons’ Parking Places as advertised with the exception of the parking place at Kingston Road pending a further assessment regarding its use.

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Cabinet Member for Environment

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