Issue - meetings

Forward Plan Ref: 2022/211

Contact: Jim Whiting, Principal Officer, Parking

Report by Corporate Director Environment & Place (CMDHM 8).

To consider proposals for a Controlled Parking Zone.

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.

This report presents the consultation responses to the Controlled Parking Zone (CPZ) proposals for the Upper Wolvercote area of Oxford as part of the approved programme for introducing CPZs in the city.

Measures to restrict and control car parking availability, including use of Controlled Parking Zones (CPZs), form part of the county’s emerging Central Oxfordshire Travel Plan (COTP) as well as recently adopted Local Transport and Connectivity Plan (adopted in 2022) and also Oxford City Council’s Local Plan (adopted in 2020). Much of Oxford is already covered by CPZs, with further CPZs planned and which are required to support several local transport and planning objectives.

Cllr Gant went though the proposals and responses to the consultation including officers’ feedback on objections.  Cllr Gant added that he would agree with a review of the scheme is carried out approximately 12 months after the implementation of the CPZ should it be approved.

Cllr Gant felt that the CPZs would 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 did not just displace in the area, and to also help encourage the use of sustainable transport modes.  CPZs were also identified as one of several action in the county’s emerging Central Oxfordshire Travel Plan that were required to support wider transport policies within the county council’s Local Transport Connectivity Plan (adopted July 2022).

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.