Issue - meetings
Review of Car Parking in the Borough
Meeting: 08/12/2015 - St Edmundsbury Cabinet (Item 158)
Report No: CAB/SE/15/078
Cabinet Member: Peter Stevens Lead Officers: Mark Walsh and Darren Dixon
Additional documents:
- CAB.SE.15.078 Appendix A OAS SE 15 017 - Recc of OAS Cttee_Car Park TnF Group - Final Report, item 158
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- CAB.SE.15.078 Appendix 1 to OAS SE 15 017_ Reccs of the OAS Cttee - Car Parking TnF Review Group report, item 158
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Decision:
RESOLVED:
That the fifteen recommendations, as set out in Section 9 of the Car Parking Task and Finish Review Group Report, attached as Appendix 1 to Report No: OAS/SE/15/017, be approved.
(The complete list of approved recommendations is attached separately.)
Minutes:
The Cabinet considered Report No: CAB/SE/15/078, which sought approval for several recommendations emanating from the final report of the Overview and Scrutiny Committee’s Car Parking Task and Finish Review Group. Some issues would require full Council approval as part of the budget setting process.
Councillor Peter Stevens, Portfolio Holder for Operations, drew relevant issues to the attention of the Cabinet, including that in 2012, the Overview and Scrutiny Committee had undertaken an extensive review of car parking provision and charging in St Edmundsbury. A significant number of recommendations were endorsed by Cabinet on 12 December 2012. This included the need for a full periodic review of car parking across the Borough every three to four years. A task and finish group was therefore established by the Overview and Scrutiny Committee to undertake this review.
Councillor Stevens thanked the task and finish group and the Committee for their work, which had amongst other issues, highlighted the growing popularity of Bury St Edmunds and the unfortunate associated parking problems sometimes generated by this achievement at certain times. The review had also addressed the need to explore longer term parking solutions and suggestions had been made by the Committee, some of which may have merit; however these would need to fit within the context of the emerging Bury St Edmunds Town Centre Masterplan.
The Cabinet commended the level of detail contained in the review and supported all 15 recommendations proposed.
RESOLVED:
That the fifteen recommendations, as set out in Section 9 of the Car Parking Task and Finish Review Group Report, attached as Appendix 1 to Report No: OAS/SE/15/017, be approved.
(The complete list of approved recommendations is attached separately to these minutes)