Residents Parking

Last week the Council heard some deputations about the immediate and temporary difficulties around the first extension of the parking zone in the south of the city.

The Labour and Conservative Groups on the Council worked together to try and help deal with the problems and, as a consequence, the Council supported the following motion. The Liberal Democrats did not support it.

Council notes :

the introduction of the first phase of the CPZ implementation and the apparent approval from those living in the new zones;

the action taken to prepare for the CPZ implementation including extensive local consultation over a six year period, the significant changes as a result of that consultation and the public inquiry;

the detailed communication strategy which included mailings to 32,000 households in zones and peripheral areas, on street signage, advertising in a wide variety of newspapers, a poster campaign and the work of the call centre;

that the decision to place zone S2 at the end of the process was based on a recommendation by the public inquiry reporter and in response to local representation;

the provision of 250 permits for the Royal Hospital for Sick Children peripatetic staff and 80 for hospital based staff and that similar permits are available on a case by case basis for other bona fide health professionals; and,

the commitment by the department to introduce traders permits by February 2007 (assuming there are few objections to the TRO) and for business permits as soon as possible following that date.

Council agrees:

that there is always room for improvement in a strategy of such complexity;

to instruct the Director of City Development to report on additional preparations for the next phases including the possibility of implementing the further zones more quickly; and,

to begin a variation to the order to allow zone S2 to be implemented in the next phase of the roll out.