Agenda, decisions and minutes

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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.

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.

Signed……………………………………..

Cabinet Member for Highway Management

Date of signing……………………………

Forward Plan Ref: 2021/095

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 (CMDHM5).

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 in February and March 2021 the former Cabinet Member for Environment on 25 March 2021 approved proceeding to formal consultation on a CPZ in the South Oxford area. This report details the responses received and recommended amendments to the scheme taking account of those responses

The Cabinet Member for Highway Management is RECOMMENDED to approve the proposals as advertised for a Controlled Parking Zone (CPZ) in the South Oxford (ext.) area, with the following amendments:

(a)      with regard to the submission by New Hinskey School, to provide for the allocation of business permits at the approved annual fee for staff, with the maximum number of such permits to be determined in consultation with the school.

(b)      with regard to the proposed limit of 1 permit per property in Abingdon Road, Gordon Street, Green Place, Lake Street, School Place, Stewart Street, Summerfield, Vicarage Lane, and Vicarage Road being amended so as to align with the proposed limit of 2 permits per property in the other parts of the CPZ.

(c)      with regard to the residential moorings on the Oxford Canal in the vicinity being included for eligibility for resident and visitor permits.

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 the Cabinet Member for Highway Management considered (CMDHM5) responses received to a consultation on the Oxford: South Oxford Area with a number of recommended amendments to the scheme resulting from those responses.

Dan Rawstorne spoke in support of the proposals. As a resident of Oxford for 16 years and Lake Street for over 3 years he had seen that parking in that area had become chaotic, congested, difficult and high risk with many visitors cruising the street looking for parking spaces in what was a narrow dead end adjacent to the pool and park. Like many Lake Street residents, he did not have any frontage or off-street parking and as a two car family the one resident parking permit per property was not workable and discriminatory and so supported the decision to now recommend that a one car restriction in and around Lake Street be increased to two. However, a 2 hour with no return within 2 hours parking for non-permit holders and free Sunday parking would not prevent shoppers or swimmers or commuters from parking on Lake Street but would prevent many residents from parking at all times of day or night when they return from work or leisure. Restrictions should, therefore, be applied to Lake Street at all hours and at the weekend. This was when the pool was used most heavily and when most shopping visitors currently used the street as a free car park.  There should be designated paid limited parking bays for visitors (not more than 4 bays, suitable for small engine cars in a high-density housing area and residents given priority to park above visitors.  Oxfordshire County Council’s resident’s parking policy (September 2014) stated that “The overall aim of the schemes is to give residents and other permit holders priority over others for the available parking space; improve access to and reduce congestion in residential streets and reduce the number of commuters entering the City”.  Instead, the policy should deter local swimmers and patients from driving to the pool or surgery and, if they had to, then charge them for car parking, as happened at the Manzil Way surgeries. The current proposal did not give residents and other permit holders any such priority but instead gave visitors equal priority as under the current 2 hours limited free for all, the situation would not be any better than before, which was the whole reason that PALS had campaigned for a CPZ. There should be clear signage deterring pool/commuting/shoppers from looking for spaces in and around Lake Street and warning deliveries that the streets were narrow and difficult to turn around and explain explicitly what considerate parking looked like.

County Councillor Brad Baines thanked officers for their work on this scheme. Parking in this area had been a contentious issue for many years and  ...  view the full minutes text for item 4/21

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.

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.

Signed……………………………………….

Cabinet Member for Highway Management

Date of signing………………………………

Forward Plan Ref: 2021/087

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 (CMDHM7).

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 in October and November 2020 the former Cabinet Member for Environment on 17 December 2020 approved proceeding to formal consultation on a CPZ in Old Marston village (the part of Old Marston accessed from Oxford Road north of the Marston Ferry Road and from Elsfield Road from the A40 slip road) also approving implementation of a CPZ in the adjacent roads within Old Marston which had been the subject of previous consultations; this latter scheme was implemented in June 2021. This report now presents the consultation responses to the CPZ proposal for Old Marston village.

The Cabinet Member for Highway Management is RECOMMENDED to approve:

a)        the proposals as advertised for a Controlled Parking Zone (CPZ) in the Old Marston village area;

b)        the proposed additional no waiting at any time restrictions at Oxford Road, Gordon Close and Rylands within the recently implemented CPZ in Old Marston outside the village area.

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. Following an informal consultation in October and November 2020 the former Cabinet Member for Environment on 17 December 2020 approved proceeding to formal consultation on a CPZ in Old Marston village (the part of Old Marston accessed from Oxford Road north of the Marston Ferry Road and from Elsfield Road from the A40 slip road) and also approving implementation of a CPZ in the adjacent roads within Old Marston which had been the subject of previous consultations. The latter scheme had been implemented in June 2021 and the Cabinet Member for Highway Management was now being asked to consider the consultation responses to the CPZ proposal for Old Marston village.

County Councillor Mark Lygo advised that he was very much in favour of CPZs but, having regard to the responses received to the consultation and having spoken to many residents, felt in this case it would be sensible to defer tes scheme to the New Year to allow time to address some of the technical points which had been raised such as displacement of vehicles from the previous Old Marston CPZ. He appreciated the amount of time that had gone into developing these schemes but Old Marston was different to other areas in the City and a deferral now would show residents that the County Council was prepared to listen to their concerns.

Officers confirmed a statutory consultation had been carried out and if following any deferral amendments were then made to the scheme that would be require further consultation. They confirmed that the scheme included a 2-hour period of waiting for non-permit holders with exceptions for funerals but any specific exemption scheme would need careful consideration.  The “Access to Elsfield Road“ restriction had been in place for a long time and was now accepted as being unenforceable and any moves to resolve that would be best carried out in the context of an LTN approach rather than as part of a CPZ.

Mark Burgess who had been scheduled to make an address via Teams had been unable to join at the agreed time. In his absence the Cabinet Member read out the following statement on his behalf:

“I have lived at 2 Park Way, Old Marston, Oxford, OX3 0QH continuously since 2010 when we bought our home, and there have never been any problems at all for my family in parking. In addition, I have not observed any issues with my neighbours regarding parking outside their homes. This is because there is ample space. Therefore, there is absolutely no need whatsoever to impose either Controlled Parking Zones or Parking restrictions in Old Marston.

Our son is severely disabled with spastic quadriplegia caused by cortical dysplasia. As an integral part of his Care Plan funded fully by the Oxfordshire Clinical Commissioning Group continuing care, nurses have to come to our house  ...  view the full minutes text for item 6/21

Forward Plan Ref: 2021/097

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 (CMDHM8).

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 in late 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 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 Florence Park area and also additional no waiting at any time restrictions on Rymers Lane.

The Cabinet Member for Highway Management is RECOMMENDED to approve:

(a)       proposals as advertised for a Controlled Parking Zone (CPZ) in the Florence Park area;

(b)       proposed additional no waiting at any time restrictions on Rymers Lane.

New Controlled Parking Zones (CPZs) were being proposed across Oxford to address numerous local issues, along with helping to support the delivery of wider transport initiatives across the city. Following an informal consultation on possible additional CPZs in Oxford in late 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 being deferred due to lower levels of support. Those deferrals, together with the lower-than-expected costs for implementing the approved schemes, had enabled proceeding with formal consultation on schemes at Hollow Way South, Florence Park and Temple Cowley. This report (CMDHM8) presented consultation responses to the CPZ proposals for the Florence Park area and also additional no waiting at any time restrictions on Rymers Lane.

Amanda Drake Brockman spoke as a resident of Westbury Crescent and while not a resident of Florence Park she had an interest in the proposed CPZ as an allotment holder at Elder Stubbs. She was concerned about the proposed road markings planned for Rymers Lane as there were over 100 allotments at Elder Stubbs and many more allotment users as well as Restore and other charities working there. A large proportion of the gardeners were past retirement age and although staying active as long as possible they sometimes needed to travel to the allotments by car to deliver heavy items and with very little space for cars inside the gates allotment users needed to park nearby from time to time. Therefore, instead of double yellow lines on both sides of the road she asked for some short-term parking places on one side of Rymers Lane, near to the allotment gate which could also be used by families and less mobile people wanting to spend a couple of hours in the park where parking was limited. It would be a pity if these facilities were only accessible to those who were either fully mobile or registered disabled. Rymers Lane was more than wide enough to accommodate this as well as allow for cyclists travelling in both directions and she hoped that a compromise could be reached enabling all citizens to share the space.

Chris Heron spoke in support of CPZs across the city as a proven way of reducing commuter parking on residential streets, commuter journeys to and from these streets while promoting greater commuter uptake of existing large-scale car parks outside the city ring road.  Removing commuter parking would make city streets less congested and polluted, safer for pedestrians and cyclists and more accessible for emergency services.  Stopping commuter traffic at the ring  ...  view the full minutes text for item 7/21