Issue - meetings

Forward Plan Ref: 2021/096

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 (CMDHM4).

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.

On 25 April 2019 and following an informal consultation on possible additional CPZs in Oxford late 2018 the former Cabinet Member for Environment 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 with schemes at Lamarsh Road and Sandhills being 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 consultation responses to the CPZ proposals for the Temple Cowley area.

The Cabinet Member for Highway Management is RECOMMENDED to approve the proposals as advertised for a Controlled Parking Zone (CPZ) in the Temple Cowley 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 (CMDHM4) responses to a consultation on CPZ proposals for the Temple Cowley area.

The Cabinet Member noted the supportive comments set out in the report from the local member Councillor Hicks who had been unable to attend the meeting.

Referring then to the chaotic congestion issues which had occurred during the past week due to road works on the A34 it was clear that any event on the local network had the potential to cause serious congestion. That needed to be addressed and one facet in achieveing that was through controlled parking zones as an aid to reducing car use and improving the attractiveness of public transport as an alternative. Therefore, having regard to the information set out in the report before him he confirmed his decision as follows:

to approve the proposals as advertised for a Controlled Parking Zone (CPZ) in the Temple Cowley area.

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Cabinet Member for Highway Management

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