Issue - meetings

Councillor Osman submits a report seeking the Cabinet's endorsement of the decisions of the former Urban Management Sub-Committee, Environment and Development Committee and Planning and Transportation Committee and confirm that the existing waiting restrictions and cycleway on Pasture Lane should be retained and that the review of traffic orders throughout the City be continued with the aim of ensuring that  consistent and justifiable restrictions are imposed wherever they are considered necessary, with the ultimate aim of gaining decriminalised parking enforcemement powers.

Councillor Osman submitted a report detailing the history of this issue following the challenge by Councillors Chohan and Sood of the decision of the Planning and Transportation Committee taken on 2 August 2000 which resolved that it be confirmed that the recently introduced waiting restrictions and the widened footway were appropriate for the area as a whole and should be retained.  Further to the report Councillor Osman reported that he had subsequently had representations from Ward Members and the Shree Wanza Community Centre and following a site visit yesterday wished to amend the recommendation to ask the Director of Environment and Development to investigate the possibility of implementing an order which would change the restriction on the north side of the end of the cul-de-sac and also to propose that the feasibility of providing of a pedestrian crossing be investigated.

RESOLVED:

(1)that the decisions of the former Urban Management Sub-Committee, former Environment and Development Committee and former Planning and Transportation Committee be endorsed and the existing waiting restrictions be confirmed and the cycleway on Pasture Lane retained;

(2)that the Director of Environment and Development investigate the possibility of an experimental order for the road opposite the Shree Wanza Community Centre being single yellow line; and

(3)that the Director of Environment and Development investigate the feasibility of providing a pelican crossing to improve access to parking in Abbey Park;

(4)that it be confirmed that the review of traffic orders throughout the City be continued with the aim of ensuring that consistent and justifiable restrictions were imposed wherever they were considered necessary, with the ultimate aim of gaining decriminalised parking enforcement powers; and

(5)that Councillor Osman investigate with officers means of speeding up the process of introducing residents’ parking.