Decision details

Oxford: Upper Wolvercote area - proposed Controlled Parking Zone

Decision Maker: Delegated Decisions by Cabinet Member for Highway Management

Decision status: Recommendations Approved

Is Key decision?: Yes

Is subject to call in?: Yes

Purpose:

A decision is required on a proposed Controlled Parking Zone.

 

Decision:

The Cabinet Member for Highway Management AGREED to:

 

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

 

2)    Include properties located on Osborne Close and Church Lane within the list of eligible properties able to apply for resident & visitor permits.

 

Reasons for the decision:

CPZs help facilitate the safe movement of traffic and alleviate parking stress, with a CPZ in Upper Wolvercote particularly aimed at ensuring parking from Oxford North does not just displace in the area, and to also help encourage the use of sustainable transport modes.  CPZs are also identified as one of several action in the county’s emerging Central Oxfordshire Travel Plan that are required to support wider transport policies within the county council’s Local Transport Connectivity Plan (adopted July 2022).

Alternative options considered:

As per report.

Report author: Geoff Barrell

Publication date: 26/01/2023

Date of decision: 26/01/2023

Decided at meeting: 26/01/2023 - Delegated Decisions by Cabinet Member for Highway Management

Effective from: 03/02/2023

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