Issue - meetings

Forward Plan Ref: 2021/086

Contact: Tim Shickle, Group Manager – Traffic & Road Safety Tel: 07920 591545/Jim Whiting, Principal Officer – Parking Tel: 07584 581187

Report by Corporate Director Environment & Place (CMDHM6).

New Controlled Parking Zones (CPZs) are being proposed across Oxford to address numerous local issues, along with helping to support the delivery of wider transport initiatives across the City and will become increasingly important if policy proposals such as demand management mechanisms e.g. traffic restrictions, or promoting higher density development in the city, are agreed.

Following an informal consultation on possible additional CPZs in Oxford late in 2018 the former Cabinet Member for Environment on 25 April 2019 approved  proceeding to formal consultation on new CPZs at Cowley Centre East, Cowley Centre West, Cowley Marsh, Headington Quarry, Hollow Way North, Lamarsh Road, Old Marston (south) , Sandhills  and Waterways  and – subject to funding –Hollow Way South, Florence Park,  and Temple Cowley. Following formal consultation, CPZs at Cowley Centre East, Cowley Centre West, Cowley Marsh, Headington Quarry, Hollow Way North, Old Marston (south) and Waterways were approved and implemented in 2020 and 2021 but with schemes at Lamarsh Road and Sandhills deferred due to lower levels of support. These deferrals, together with the lower-than-expected costs for implementing the approved schemes, has enabled proceeding with formal consultation on schemes at Hollow Way South, Florence Park and Temple Cowley. This report presents the consultation responses to the CPZ proposals for the Hollow Way South area.

The Cabinet Member for Highway Management is RECOMMENDED to approve the proposals as advertised for a Controlled Parking Zone (CPZ) in the Hollow Way South area.

Approved

New Controlled Parking Zones (CPZs) are being proposed across Oxford to address numerous local issues, along with helping to support the delivery of wider transport initiatives across the City. The Cabinet Member for Highway Management considered (CMDHM6) responses to a consultation on CPZ proposals for the Hollow Way South area.

Councillor Liz Brighouse spoke in support of the proposals falling within her division, although the majority of the area fell within Councillor Hicks’ division but she noted that he also supported the proposals with his comments set out in the report.  The Hollow Way South area had been badly affected by displaced parking from adjacent CPZ areas and by commuters, many of whom parked and then used bicycles to access the City. These were places where people lived and she was confident that when the zone was in place, controlling commuters and easing the number of cars coming in residents would see and appreciate its benefits.

Noting that the scheme would be reviewed after 12 months the Cabinet Member for Highway Management having regard to the information set out in the report before him and the representations made to him at the meeting confirmed his decision as follows:

to approve the proposals as advertised for a Controlled Parking Zone (CPZ) in the Hollow Way South area.

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Cabinet Member for Highway Management

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