Agenda item

The Executive RESOLVED that

(i)              a parking places order in St Georges Road car park for resident permit holders only and to charge £100 per permit be introduced;

(ii)             the Borough of Surrey Heath (Off-Street Parking Places) Order 2018 be amended to include St Georges Road car park; and

(iii)            the Executive Head of Business in consultation with the Portfolio Holder for Business be authorised to consider any objections arising from the public consultation.

The Executive considered a report seeking the amendment of the Surrey Heath Borough Off-Street Parking Places Order 2018 to create a residents’ only off-street car park in St Georges Road service area, to be known as St Georges Road Resident Permit Holders Only car park.

St Georges Road service area was situated behind properties 11 to 27 High Street, Camberley and was owned by Surrey Heath Borough Council, with access to the car park controlled by a rising bollard operated by E & J Ground Rents, Winchester.

Members were reminded that, as a result of the High Street improvement works scheduled to begin later that year, there would be no residents’ parking on the High Street between its junction with Pembroke Broadway and its junction with St Georges Road and Obelisk Way. This would remove convenient on-street parking for a small number of on-street resident permit holders who lived in this section of the High Street.

St Georges Road service area currently had no parking restrictions and was being used as a car park without the permission of the Council. In order to control the use of this service area it would be necessary to implement a parking places order and restrict the use to resident permit holders.

It was therefore proposed to introduce parking restrictions on St Georges Road service area to create St Georges Road Residents Permit Car Park, with permits available at a cost of £100 per annum; this fee was consistent with residents’ parking fees in Council car parks. Qualifying residences would be the residential properties in the High Street located between its junctions with Pembroke Broadway and its junctions with St Georges Road / Obelisk Way. The initial offer would be to qualifying residences with an existing on-street High Street parking permit.

All affected residents would be advised of the loss of their ability to apply for an on-street residents parking permit prior to the publication of the Notice of Proposal and given priority to apply for a residents’ permit for St Georges Road Residents Permit Only car park.

RESOLVED that

(i)          a parking places order in St Georges Road car park for resident permit holders only and to charge £100 per permit be introduced;

(ii)        the Borough of Surrey Heath (Off-Street Parking Places) Order 2018 be amended to include St Georges Road car park; and

(iii)      the Executive Head of Business in consultation with the Portfolio Holder for Business be authorised to consider any objections arising from the public consultation.