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Meeting: 21/01/2019 - Babergh Overview and Scrutiny Committee (Item 48)

48 BOS/18/24 BABERGH AND MID SUFFOLK AREA PARKING PLAN pdf icon PDF 1 MB

Members are asked to provide feed-back on the report to the Assistant Director – Environment and Commercial Partnership

Minutes:

 

28.1         The Committee received a presentation on the Joint Parking Plan, presented by Chris Fry, Assistant Director for Environment and Commercial Partnerships and responded to questions, including:

 

·       That Tourism was not included in the policy (page 81b) but was included on page 66;

·       That issues around management of disabled parking, had to be managed by the civil parking plan;

·       Parking enforcement was questioned, and the response was that this was under the remit of SCC. Suffolk had adopted the Suffolk Parking Management Strategy, which was for parking across the County;

·       Questions regarding whom would be enforcing parking regulations and whether it was to be an in-house or outsourced enforcement were raised.  This was yet to be determined;

·       Civil Parking Enforcement was now the responsibility of SCC;

·       If the proposal went to Cabinet, there would be a minimum of 21 days consultation period.

·       If the proposal was adopted in February, the consultation would begin in May and run for 6 weeks before going back to Cabinet.

·       Clarification of the Policy for the Highway test was provided by the officer, who assured Members that the author of the policy understood the issues involved and that it would for the SCC to implement this;

·       An action plan and a time line were discussed to be provided to Members so they could inform the parishes.  However, the Chief Executives warned against this and said briefings on the issue would be better for Members.

 

48.2       It was generally felt by Members that issues would be addressed during the consultation period, and that apart from the matters debated above there were not any comments to make on the Joint Parking policy.

 

 

 


Meeting: 17/01/2019 - Mid Suffolk Overview and Scrutiny Committee (Item 55)

55 MOS/18/25 BABERGH AND MID SUFFOLK AREA PARKING PLAN pdf icon PDF 1 MB

Members are asked to provide feed-back on the report to the Assistant Director – Environment and Commercial Partnership

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