A report seeking approval for Officers to undertake statutory consultations for resident permit parking schemes on Granville Road and Katesgrove area.

The Executive Director for Economic Growth and Neighbourhood Services submitted a report that sought approval for officers to carry out statutory consultation for resident permit parking schemes on Granville Road and in the Katesgrove area.  A map showing the proposals for Granville Road was attached to the report at Appendix 1 and a map showing the proposals for the Katesgrove area was attached to the report at Appendix 2.

The report explained that following informal consultation in 2019, there had been no clear support for a resident permit scheme in the Tidmarsh Street area nor on Kentwood Hill. Officers had been liaising with Ward Councillors since collating the results, to reach an agreement on whether to progress with scheme development.  The results of the informal consultation for the Tidmarsh Street area had shown that only 15% of respondents stated that they had felt that a permit parking scheme would improve parking in their area.  Using the same measures, there had been only 49% for the Kentwood Hill proposal.  Due to the negative response, officers did not recommend that these schemes should be developed further. They also recommended that any further requests for permit parking in these areas should be treated as new requests that would go to the back of the waiting list.

Informal consultations had also been carried out for the Granville Road and Katesgrove area schemes in 2019 and following discussions with Ward Councillors, officers had designed schemes, as set out in Appendix 1 and 2. Officers recommended that these schemes be progressed to statutory consultation and sought approval to carry out this process. The report also recommended that the Granville Road proposal should be included in a new permit zone, whilst the Katesgrove area scheme should be part of the existing 10R permit zone.

At the invitation of the Chair, Councillor Challenger, Katesgrove Ward Councillor, addressed the Sub-Committee on the Katesgrove area scheme.

Resolved –

(1)     That the report be noted;

(2)     That the Tidmarsh Street area and Kentwood Hill area proposals be removed from the resident permit programme and that any renewed request for a permit parking scheme in these areas be treated as a new request, as set out in paragraph 4.1 of the report;

(3)     That the Assistant Director of Legal and Democratic Services be authorised to undertake statutory consultations for the Granville Road and Katesgrove area schemes, in accordance with the Local Authorities Traffic Orders (Procedure) (England and Wales) Regulations 1996;

(4)     That subject to no objections received, the Assistant Director of Legal and Democratic Services be authorised to make the Traffic Regulation Orders and scheme delivery planning commence;

(5)     That any objection(s) received following the statutory advertisement be reported to a future meeting of the Sub-Committee;

(6)     That no public inquiry be held into the proposals.