Issue - meetings

Forward Plan Ref: 2021/152

Contact: Tim Shickle, Group Manager – Traffic & Road Safety Tel: 07920 591545 / Ben Smith, Infrastructure Local Lead Central Tel: 07392 318877

Report by Corporate Director Environment & Place (CMDHM10).

The report presents responses received to a statutory consultation on changes to residents’ parking and double yellow lines in the Jericho and North Oxford Controlled Parking Zones in:

·           Cranham Street

·           Great Clarendon Street

·           Nelson Street and

·           Hayfield Road

These changes would allow the introduction of a total of 5 bicycle hangars (2 are proposed for Hayfield Road) which equates to secure on street parking for 30 bicycles in total across these four streets and encourage greater ownership and use of bicycles. Whilst the final details of how the hangars would operate are yet to be resolved, it is the intention that they should be introduced on a trial basis which will help guide officers and councillors when considering the possibility of further hangars elsewhere in the city.

The Cabinet Member for Highway Management is RECOMMENDED to approve proposals to change existing residents’ parking and double yellow lines to allow the introduction of bicycle hangars in Cranham Street, Nelson Street and Great Clarendon Street as advertised but not in Hayfield Road. 

Approved

The Cabinet Member for Highway Management considered (CMDHM10) responses received to a statutory consultation on changes to residents’ parking and double yellow lines in the Jericho and North Oxford Controlled Parking Zones in Cranham Street, Great Clarendon Street, Nelson Street and Hayfield Road to allow introduction of 5 bicycle hangars securing on street parking for 30 bicycles in total across those four streets. The final details of how the hangars would operate were yet to be resolved but the intention was that they be introduced on a trial basis to guide future provision elsewhere in the city.

Two further representations received withinthe consultation period but too late to be included in the report had been tabled in full and made available to the Cabinet Member. Officer advice had been neither representation would have changed the recommendation in the report.

Danny Yee as a resident of East Oxford advised that he would not be directly affected by these bike hangars but supported the proposal. This first trial for secure on-street cycle parking in Oxford would be critical in establishing their viability. There was a pressing need for these facilities all around Oxford and he urged that the trial period be short in order to confirm that the hangars were used, presented no accessibility issues for the people using them or problems for other people to facilitate a larger roll out across Oxford.

Speaking in support of the proposals County Councillor John Howson hoped that it would encourage active travel initiatives. Acknowledging the objections from the residents of Hayfield Road he hoped that the residents’ association might in the future recognise the benefits of such facilities having recently counted 37 bicycles on the roadside.

Acknowledging the comments from the speakers and having regard to their remarks and the information contained in the report before him the Cabinet Member for Highway Management confirmed his decision as follows:

to approve proposals to change existing residents’ parking and doubleyellow lines to allow the introduction of bicycle hangars in Cranham Street, Nelson Street and Great Clarendon Street as advertised but not in Hayfield Road. 

Signed………………………………………..

Cabinet Member for Highway Management

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