Question submitted by: Guy Alexander Bell

Why are you ignoring residents, refusing to answer any questions from residents and refusing to implement a CPZ when evidence HAS been shown to you of atrocious parking issues with at least 50% of parking by non-residents in the daytime?

Response: Councillor Ricketts, Cabinet Member for Transport and Housing Delivery.

Ward Members have engaged local residents on a number of parking concerns within the Stoke ward. As part of this process, officers provided Ward Councillors with support around the process to explore the feasibility of a CPZ.

Due to the volume of schemes being considered at the time, officers advised that a proposal for a Stoke CPZ would, regrettably, have to wait the determination a couple of other schemes, schemes that had been approved to be subject to statutory Road Traffic Act consultation (formal consultation).

I understand that, in accordance with the previous current CPZ policy, residents were balloted on their views and support for a CPZ, and through meetings held by Ward Councillors that residents expressed support for a CPZ.

Officers have previously taken receipt of all completed ballot cards, for all CPZ schemes delivered to date. This enabled officers to confirm that ballot outcomes have achieved the requirements set out under the previous CPZ policy, that only persons/properties entitled to vote have, and that persons/properties have equally not been excluded. Regrettably, no ballot cards were provided to enable officers to verify such a ballot achieved the criteria as set out under the previous policy.

The Council approved a series of amendments to the Councils CPZ policy in February 2018, some of these amendments including some amendments to the criteria for a CPZ, together with the introduction some new processes. One of these new processes was centred at factually establishing the parking difficulties within a defined area, known as the ‘fact find’. Upon a request for a CPZ officers gather various parking and travel information, such as the type, amount and availability of parking within an area, information obtained in order to both help understand any parking difficulties and to determine whether any parking difficulties meet the new criteria for considering a potential CPZ.

The new policy was published on 19th February 2018 and sets out the councils new CPZ policy and the process for requesting and considering CPZ’s.

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Question submitted by: Ian Anderson

Can the transport councillor supply the statistics as to why Zone (R) should have restricted parking from 12 noon till 3 pm Monday to Saturday?

Who decided and how many people actually voted for these parking times, as I didn’t see any papers come through my letter box about it.

Response: Councillor Ricketts, Cabinet Member for Transport and Housing Delivery.

Under the Road Traffic Act the Council is required to consult on changes to Traffic Regulation Orders, this includes any amendment to the current Traffic Regulation Order for Controlled Parking Zone R. 

Proposals to amend the operational hours of Controlled Parking Zone R were advertised on 28th February 2017.  This involved a notice placed in the local media, documents made available at First Stop on New George Street and notices displayed on the streets within zone R.  These notices inform the public of the proposals and how to submit representations to the proposals.  Notices were displayed for 21 days with the consultation expiring on 21st March 2017.

During the consultation period a total of 27 representations were received to these proposals.  Having considered these proposals the decision of the Cabinet Member for Transport and Housing was to implement the decision; to amend the operational hours to apply Monday to Saturday 12pm to 3pm.  The change became effective on 30th August 2017.