Agenda item

Motion by Councillor Booth - Speeding Parking Controls Roll-out

“Committee

1)       Notes existing council commitments, both in the City Mobility Plan (CMP), and in the Parking Action Plan, to:

a)       extend parking controls and increase the percentage of population covered by parking controls (CMP, p.42)

b)       decrease the number of parking permits issued to higher polluting vehicles (CMP 1st review, appendix 1)

c)       reduce the number of residents' parking permits issued within existing CPZs CMP 1st review, appendix 1);

2)       Notes the existing mandate to deliver these policies, as part of the council's support for the creation of liveable places, protection against vehicle dominance and wider action to address the climate crisis;

3)       Notes that at present, any extension of CPZ requires a comprehensive and time-consuming parking survey as well as consultation with a number of stakeholder groups and residents;

4)       Further notes the fragmented nature of existing parking controls, with 19 CPZ areas and 10 PPA areas, can make enforcement challenging;

5)       Notes, following the recent decision of committee confirmed at full council to pause development of the WPL, and the questions around whether the council has full powers to introduce congestion charging or commuter charging, that parking restrictions and road space reallocation are the only demand management tools currently available to the council;

6)       Therefore agrees that as part of future planned report(s) to committee on the Strategic Review of Parking updates, that these report(s) should set out options to speed up expansion of the CPZ and rationalise parking controls to allow for more effective enforcement, including, but not limited to, the following:

a)       Retaining the need for consultation which complies with the Council’s consultation policy, including parking occupation surveys prior to commencing the TRO process and consider removing the need for any additional consultation or survey work prior to each expansion;

b)       Consideration of rationalisation of hours of restriction and converting existing PPA into CPZ.”