(a)     New and Outstanding Requests

(b)     Results of Informal Consultations

A report providing the Sub-Committee with an update on the list of requests for Resident Permit Parking (RPP), including the progress of developing schemes and any new requests that have been received and also providing the results of the informal consultations that were undertaken on the areas agreed as part of the concurrent scheme development programme (CSDP).

Further to Minute 19 of the meeting held on 11 September 2019, the Executive Director for Economic Growth and Neighbourhood Services submitted a report providing the Sub-Committee with an update on the list of requests for Resident Permit Parking (RPP), including progress on developing schemes and any new requests that had been received, and the results of the informal consultations that were carried out on the areas agreed as part of the concurrent scheme development programme.  An updated list of requests for Resident Permit Parking was attached to the report at Appendix 1 and the informal consultation results were attached to the report at Appendix 2.

Appendix 1 of the report set out the list of requests that had been received for Resident Permit Parking Schemes and included the comments and objections that had been received during the statutory consultation.  Where the Sub-Committee had previously allocated a priority to a scheme this had been recorded and where a request had been previously reported to the Sub-Committee but had not been allocated a priority, this had also been recorded, along with any schemes that were ‘new’ to the list.  Schemes that were being developed in the concurrent scheme development programme had been recorded as the same priority, alongside the acronym ‘CSDP’ (Concurrent Scheme Development Programme).

The report stated that since the last update report the RPP schemes in East Reading (Area 1) and Lower Caversham had been implemented and officers were developing a delivery programme for the East Reading (Area 2) scheme alongside the Steering Group and intended to introduce this scheme in July 2020. 

The report stated that officers had carried out informal consultations between 30 September and 28 October 2019.  In addition, the summarised results from the informal consultation in respect of the Grovelands Road area that had been carried out by Ward Councillors was set out in Appendix 2.  Councillors had also arranged a drop-in session for local residents.  It was intended that offices and Ward Councillors should use the informal consultation results to consider how the scheme should be developed further or if there was considered to be sufficient demand to develop further a scheme.  The report included a table that provided a summary of intended development of the CSDP and officers would continue to work with Ward Councillors to consider the next development steps for schemes and to agree a detailed scheme for statutory consultation, following investigation.

Resolved –    That the report be noted