Issue - meetings

Forward Plan Ref: 2020/152

Contact: Hugh Potter, Group Manager – Area Operations Hub Tel: 07766 998704/Jim Whiting, Principal Officer – Parking Tel: 07584 581187

Report by Director for Community Operations (Interim) (CMDE4).

At the Cabinet Member for Environment decisions meeting on 8 October 2020Councillor Ian Hudspeth (the Leader of the Council standing in for Councillor Yvonne Constance) approved a CPZ in the Marston North area but directed that implementation of that scheme be deferred to allow consideration of an informal consultation on a CPZ  in the adjacent Old Marston village area.  The report sets out the representations received to that consultation.

The Cabinet Member for Environment is RECOMMENDED to:

a)        approve proceeding to a formal consultation on a CPZ in the Old Marston Village area subject to funding being confirmed, with this being an extension to the Marston North CPZ;

b)        in the light of the responses to the informal consultation on the Old Marston Village area, to approve proceeding to implementation on the CPZ in the Marston North area as approved in principle at the Cabinet Member for Environment decisions meeting on 8 October 2020.

Approved

Approved

At the Cabinet Member for Environment decisions meeting on 8 October 2020Councillor Ian Hudspeth (the Leader of the Council standing in for the Cabinet Member for Environment) approved a CPZ in the Marston North area but directed that implementation of that scheme be deferred to allow consideration of an informal consultation on a CPZ  in the adjacent Old Marston village area.  The report now before the Cabinet Member (CMDE4) sets out the representations received to that consultation.

The Cabinet support officer reported the following submission received from Mr Paul Spooner a resident of Jessops Close regarding the relaxation of proposals for Horseman’s Close which included Clays Close and Jessops Close both of which adjoined Horseman’s Close.  The roads in question could not realistically support non-residential parking with out serious disruption. They provided rear access to garages and were too narrow for on-street parking without illegal overlapping of footpaths with the potential to affect those with mobility issues.  Similarly, emergency access was permanently required to the waste-water pumping station and electricity sub-station on Clays Close with turning bays often blocked. He had asked that the week-long non-resident parking restrictions as originally proposed for both Jessops and Clay Close be retained.  Most residents had not supported any relaxation and had been unaware of moves to make those changes.

Technical officers advised that as a decision on the Marston North proposals had already been taken it would be difficult procedurally to amend that decision. However, the specific issue could be monitored.

Noting that these areas were part of a city-wide project to address parking by non-residents and commuters in the City and having regard to the information set out in the report before her and the representations made to her at the meeting including the officer response to the written submission received from Mr Spooner the Cabinet Member for Environment confirmed her decision as follows:

a)        approve proceeding to a formal consultation on a CPZ in the Old Marston Village area subject to funding being confirmed, with this being an extension to the Marston North CPZ;

b)        in the light of the responses to the informal consultation on the Old Marston Village area, to approve proceeding to implementation on the CPZ in the Marston North area as approved in principle at the Cabinet Member for Environment decisions meeting on 8 October 2020.

Signed………………………………………..

Cabinet Member for Environment

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