Issue - meetings

Forward Plan Ref: 2022/212

Contact: Jim Whiting, Principal Officer, Parking,

Report by Corporate Director Environment & Place (CMDHM  6).

To consider proposals for a Controlled Parking Zone.

The Cabinet Member for Highway Management AGREED to:

1)    Approve the proposals as advertised for a Controlled Parking Zone (CPZ) in the Donnington area.

2)    Include Ferry House, Meadow Lane within the list of eligible properties able to apply for resident & visitor permits.

3)    Include residential moorings on the Oxford Canal in the vicinity of the new zone, being included for eligibility for resident and visitor permits.

This report presents the consultation responses to the Controlled Parking Zone (CPZ) proposals for the Donnington area of Oxford as part of the approved programme for introducing CPZs in the city.

Measures to restrict and control car parking availability, including use of Controlled Parking Zones (CPZs), form part of the county’s emerging Central Oxfordshire Travel Plan (COTP) as well as recently adopted Local Transport and Connectivity Plan (adopted in 2022) and also Oxford City Council’s Local Plan (adopted in 2020). Much of Oxford is already covered by CPZs, with further CPZs planned and which are required to support several local transport and planning objectives.

Cllr Gant invited speakers to address the meeting and responded to the points made in their statements.

Cllr Gant welcomed the aims of the scheme in terms of transport management (to remove free on-street commuter and other non-residential car parking spaces from the city, thereby reducing traffic levels and helping boost use of non-car modes), development management (to support the city and county councils’ policies to limit the number of car parking spaces provided as part of new developments by ensuring restricted off-street provision does not lead to overspill parking in surrounding streets) and for protecting residential streets (by removing intrusive or obstructive non-residential on-street car parking and, where necessary, limiting the number of on-street spaces occupied per dwelling by residential and visitor parking).

Officers’ suggestion was that a review of the scheme could be carried out approximately 12 months after the implementation of the CPZ, should it be approved.

Cllr Gant went through consultation responses and officers’ comments to objections.

Cllr Gant felt that these CPZs would help facilitate the safe movement of traffic and alleviate parking stress, with a CPZ in Donnington aimed at tackling existing on street parking issues and to also help encourage the use of sustainable transport modes.   

The Cabinet Member for Highway Management AGREED to:

1)    Approve the proposals as advertised for a Controlled Parking Zone (CPZ) in the Donnington area.

2)    Include Ferry House, Meadow Lane within the list of eligible properties able to apply for resident & visitor permits.

3)    Include residential moorings on the Oxford Canal in the vicinity of the new zone, being included for eligibility for resident and visitor permits.