Purpose

To review a range of parking policies and
charges in and beyond the Residents’ Parking Scheme areas to
improve turnover of spaces and encourage modal shift to alternate,
more sustainable, modes of transport.

To use pricing mechanisms to reflect the value of, and competing
demands for, kerb space and where possible use charges to drive
behaviour change.

Content

The Policy Committee:

1.         Initiated a
Task and Finish Group, to be chaired by
Cllr Rob Bryher, to make recommendations to the committee for a
modern and holistic Parking and Kerbside Strategy.

2.         Residents
Parking

a. Approve and implement increase of £56 to
£124 for first vehicle permit tariffs.

b. Approved all RPS permit types going forward are
included within the Council’s Fees and Charges so that an
inflationary increase is made every year (rounded to the nearest
whole numbers).

c. Approve and implement price alignment for all
Easton (ES) RPS permits with the prevailing rates for other RPS
over a two year period to remove the pricing anomaly, noting that
the budget implications for this increase are
negligible.  Subject to further
financial and equalities assessment delegated to officers in
consultation with the Chair

3.       
RPS Business, Customer, Medical & Trader
Permits and Visitor Permits

a. Approved a rounded 22% inflationary increase to
medical, trader, business & customer permits.

b. Approved introducing a charge for all Visitor
Permits (excluding Essential Visitor Permits for care needs). That
charge to be aligned with the prevailing hourly Pay and Display
Rate and remove the additional allowance per household.

4.       
RPS Pay and Display changes and removal of 30m
free parking in the RPS (New Proposals)

a. Approved a rounded 22% inflationary increase to
RPS Pay and Display rate to £2 per hour.

b. Approved the principle of an additional uplift to
Pay and Display rates in specified RPS areas to reflect demand and
encourage turnover of spaces, and its application in Clifton
Village RPS, Kingsdown RPS & Clifton East RPS.

6.         Approved
the implementation of competitive early bird charging at Temple
Gate and West End MSCPs and monitoring of the impacts.

7.        Implement an
inflation-based charge only. Refer consideration of a change to
linear charging to the Parking Strategy Task and Finish Group,
reporting back to the committee in 2025.  Subject to further financial and equalities
assessment delegated to officers in consultation with the
Chair.

8.        Delegates
authority to the Executive Director, Growth and Regeneration to
implement the approved proposals.
 
 
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Recommendations 4c and 5 were not approved.