Issue - meetings

Cabinet Member: Transport Management

Forward Plan Ref: 2025/039

Contact: Steve Axtell, Senior Officer – Traffic and Road Safety (Stephen.Axtell@oxfordshire.gov.uk)

Report by Director of Environment and Highways (CMDTMT).

The Cabinet Member for Transport Management is RECOMMENDED to:

a)           Defer the decision to relocate the existing ‘Permit Holders Only 8am-6:30pm Monday to Saturday’ parking places, outside Nos.27 & 33 Frenchay Road, to being partly on the adjacent footway, and

b)           Approve the exploration of other potential solutions by Officers if appropriate.

The Chair introduced the item to the meeting, invited speakers to make their addresses and responded to their points in turn.

The Chair referred to several written statements submitted.

The Chair clarified the recommendations were to defer the proposals and to give approval to explore other solutions.

The Chair raised the issue of pavement parking and confirmed that the Council was waiting responses from the Department for Transport.

Officers confirmed that the widening of the road at the specific point raised by the Chair would not allow for two-way traffic.

Officers recognised the challenges of the schemes and committed to trying to find alternative solutions as per the recommendations.

The Chair referred to several consultation responses.

The Chair noted the officers’ responses and confirmed that he would like to amend the wording in recommendation a) to ‘reject’ rather than ‘defer’.

The Chair thanked officers for their work, speakers for their contributions and agreed to the recommendations as amended.

RESOLVED to:

a)    Defer Reject the decision to relocate the existing ‘Permit Holders Only 8am-6:30pm Monday to Saturday’ parking places, outside Nos.27 & 33 Frenchay Road, to being partly on the adjacent footway, and

b)    Approve the exploration of other potential solutions by Officers if appropriate.

As this was the last meeting of this Council term before the elections on 1 May, the Chair thanked officers, speakers and Councillors for taking part in these meetings and commended it as a good example of engagement with local communities.