FAQs

This is a two-stage process:

Stage One – is an informal public consultation intended to gather information from local residents and businesses about parking problems on your road to help the council decide what measures if any are taken forward to the next stage.

Stage Two – is the statutory consultation stage, when residents and businesses are re-consulted on the proposed parking controls to be taken forward.

We are currently at the informal Stage One process. No decisions have yet been made. 

Although some people have contacted us to explain their parking problems, we would like to hear your views as well. Your views are very important so that the council can clearly understand the level of support that exists for parking controls within your area. If there is majority support for parking controls the council will proceed to Stage Two and we will write to you again with further information about this stage of the process.

You must decide what is important for your household. You should consider whether the parking issues you experience in your street justify any changes to parking controls and the introduction of new extended hours of control in your road. Should you want to be included in the new zone the hours of control should reflect the level of parking problems in the area balanced against the flexibility of having visitors outside the controlled hours.

We will analyse all the responses we receive, and parking controls will only be implemented where there is clear majority support. The results of the consultation will be reported to the local ward councillors and the Portfolio Holder for Environment and Community Safety for approval to proceed to the next stage which is the statutory consultation stage (Stage Two).  

If the scheme progresses to this stage the council will write to you again with further information about this stage of the process.