Issue - meetings

Report of Head of Safer Communities, Urban and Rural Services

Summary

• To advise Members on the feedback from the Pre Order consultation on car parking proposals.
• To decide on final proposals.

Recommendations

The Executive is recommended:

(1)               To note the feedback from the pre Order consultation.

(2)               To authorise formal Order Making on final proposals for implementation on, or as soon after, 1 March as is possible.

This was taken as the second item of business and the meeting was addressed by a speaker on behalf of Bicester Chamber of Commerce.

Approved, with the amendment that evening parking be at a flat rate of 80p for Banbury and 70p for Bicester and that there should be no parking charges on religious bank holidays.

The Head of Safer Communities, Urban and Rural Services submitted a report to advise Members on the feedback from the Pre Order consultation on car parking proposals and to enable them to decide on final proposals.

Ben Jackson, on behalf of Bicester Chamber of Commerce, addressed the meeting in opposition to the proposals due to what he perceived would be an adverse impact on Bicester.

Resolved

(1)               That the feedback from the pre Order consultation be noted.

(2)               That officers be authorised to begin formal Order Making on the final proposals set out in the annex to these minutes (as set out in the minute book) for implementation on, or as soon after, 1 March as is possible, with the amendments that evening parking be at a flat rate of 80p for Banbury and 70p for Bicester and that there should be no parking charges on religious bank holidays and New Years Day.

Reasons

A range of car parking proposals have been considered as part of service development for 2011/12, and through the budget preparation process. These were advertised informally in October with key agencies and consultees in accordance with the Local Authorities' Traffic Orders (Procedure) (England and Wales) Regulations 1996.

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