Issue - meetings

Forward Plan Ref: 2020/077

Contact: Hugh Potter, Group Manager – Area Operations Hub Tel: 07766 998704

Report by Director for Community Operations (Interim) (CMDE6).

In June 2018 and April 2019 the Cabinet Member for Environment approved a programme of new CPZs in Oxford to address numerous local issues and help support the delivery of wider transport initiatives across the City. This report presents responses to a formal consultation on a new CPZ in the Waterways area.

The Cabinet Member for the Environment is RECOMMENDED to approve the proposals as advertised for a Controlled Parking Zone (CPZ) in the Waterways  area, but with the following also being included for eligibility for resident and visitor permits: Clearwater Place; Complins Close; residential moorings on the Oxford Canal in the vicinity.

Approved

The Leader of the Council considered (CMDE6) responses received to a formal consultation on a new CPZ in the Waterways area.

Supporting the scheme County Councillor John Howson appreciated the addition of residents’ parking within the CPZ for those living within the un-adopted ‘Closes’, including those owned by the social housing company. The inclusion of a small number of residential moorings on the Oxford Canal just north of his Division in the scheme was also welcomed as these boaters had traditionally parked in Elizabeth Jennings Way. There was concern about the need for additional double yellow lines west of the canal bridge and this needed to be kept under review.  Finally, as part of the implementation process, he asked whether the double yellow lines protecting the end of the cycle lane and footpath from Bainton Road and the dropped curb be aligned with the footpath rather than the offset arrangement that existed at present. He had asked for this to be undertaken before but had been advised that it needed to be combined within a larger scheme. 

Having regard to the information set out in the report before him and the representations made to him at the meeting the Leader of the Council confirmed his decision as follows:

To approve proposals for a Controlled parking Zone in the Waterways area, but with the following also being included for eligibility for resident and visitor permits namely Clearwater Place; Complins Close and residential moorings on the Oxford Canal in the vicinity.

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Leader of the Council

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