Decision details

Countywide Civil Parking Enforcement Services

Decision Maker: Executive Member for Environment and Transport

Decision status: Recommendations Approved

Is Key decision?: Yes

Is subject to call in?: Yes

Purpose:

To consider a report of the Director of Economy, Transport and Environment regarding approval to establish civil parking enforcement in Gosport to be implemented and operated by the County Council. In addition approval is sought to give notice to end current agency arrangements and to put in place the provisions required for providing civil parking enforcement across the County in pursuance of Transformation to 2019 proposals.

Decision:

That the Executive Member for Environment and Transport approves establishing civil parking enforcement in Gosport.

That civil parking enforcement in Gosport will not be delegated through an Agency Agreement at present, but that preparations are made, and arrangements put in place for the County Council to implement and operate   the core functions required.

That arrangements put in place to support civil parking enforcement in Gosport retain the option to be ‘scaled up’ to provide the capacity to cover other district/borough areas in the future if required.

That suitable temporary enforcement arrangements are put in place to provide an interim solution, prior to establishing civil parking enforcement in Gosport, and that authority be delegated to the Director of Economy, Transport and Environment, in consultation with the Executive Member for Environment and Transport to make the necessary arrangements.

That  authority be delegated to the Director of Economy Transport and Environment, in consultation with the Executive Member for Environment and Transport, to implement proposals for areas of  pay-and-display, on-street parking in Gosport to provide an appropriate mixture of on-street and off-street, paid for parking, to meet established County Council policy objectives.

That the Executive Member for Environment and Transport approves the termination of current district/borough council agency arrangement for civil parking enforcement and authorises the serving of appropriate notices for this change to come into effect no later than 1 April 2020, with alternative arrangements for a civil parking enforcement service put in place to provide a consistent countywide service in accordance with County Council policy objectives.

That the Executive Member for Environment and Transport delegates authority to the Director of Economy Transport and Environment to work with District and Borough Councils to explore alternative arrangements for a consistent countywide civil parking enforcement service, with confirmation of decisions in respect of potential, revised agency agreements required by 1 April 2019 to allow sufficient time for alternative arrangements to be established.

That the Executive Member for Environment and Transport approves the development and implementation of a system for bus lane enforcement, as part of revisions to the enforcement service in the county.

That the Executive Member for Environment and Transport delegates authority to the Director of Economy Transport and Environment to put in place suitable temporary bus lane enforcement arrangements to provide an interim solution prior to establishing final countywide bus lane enforcement arrangements.

 

Report author: Adrian Gray

Publication date: 20/11/2017

Date of decision: 14/11/2017

Decided at meeting: 14/11/2017 - Executive Member for Environment and Transport Decision Day

Effective from: 28/11/2017

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