Issue - meetings

Forward Plan Ref: 2021/170

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 (CMDHM9).

The report presents responses received to a statutory consultation on a proposal to enable Car Club operators to apply for parking permits for their vehicles so that car club users can park under the same conditions as Resident Permit holders in the Controlled Parking Zones the cars are allocated to, in order to provide greater flexibility and convenience for their users and to supplement the few existing designated Car Club parking places (the latter are proposed to be retained). Applications for the permits and the payment of the annual permit fee will be the responsibility of the Car club operators.

The Cabinet Member for Highway Management is RECOMMENDED to approve as advertised the allocation of zone-specific parking permits for Car Club vehicles (on application by the Car Club operator and payment of the relevant annual fee) within all Controlled Parking Zones in Oxford.

Approved

The Cabinet Member for Highway Management considered (CMDHM9) responses received to a statutory consultation to enable Car Club operators to apply for parking permits for their vehicles so that car club users could park under the same conditions as Resident Permit holders in the Controlled Parking Zones where the cars were allocated to and providing greater flexibility and convenience for car club users.

County Councillor Andrew Gant declared that he was a subscriber to the co wheels car club. He supported the further roll-out of car clubs in Oxford which had been a great success and were clearly well used. However, one of the challenges to further take up among residents was that the places where they were parked were not evenly distributed across the city and so providing the necessary support in the form of parking spaces was entirely in line with the county’s fair deal alliance’s stated aim of reducing private car use. This was a step towards doing that and he hoped it would also continue to be a feature of large developments.

The Cabinet Member for Highway Management fully supported the provision of alternative options and having regard to the information set out in the report before him together with the representations made to him at the meeting confirmed his decision as follows:

to approve as advertised the allocation of zone-specific parking permits for Car Club vehicles (on application by the Car Club operator and payment of the relevant annual fee) within all Controlled Parking Zones in Oxford.

Signed…………………………………………

Cabinet Member for Highway Management

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