Issue - meetings
Car Parking
Meeting: 31/10/2023 - Overview and Scrutiny Committee (Item 297)
297 Car Parking Strategy 
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Purpose
To outline the approach to review and update the parking strategy to ensure best use of Council assets.
Recommendations
That the Overview and Scrutiny Committee scrutinises the report and agrees any recommendations it wishes to submit to the Cabinet meeting on 2 November 2023.
Invited
Councillor Tony Dale, Cabinet Member for Economy and Council Transformation
Susan Hughes, Business Manager for Support and Advice
Additional documents:
- Annex A - List of current Car parks, item 297
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- Annex B - List of current fees and charges, item 297
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- Annex C - Cotswold District Council Car parking Strategy action plan 2023, item 297
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- Annex D - Cotswold District Council Benchmarking report 2023, item 297
PDF 510 KB
- Annex E - Equality and Rurality Impact Assessment Form, item 297
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- Webcast for Car Parking Strategy
Minutes:
There was a comfort break at 7:09pm, and the meeting resumed at 7:18pm.
Cabinet Member for the Economy and Council Transformation introduced the item. The purpose of the report was to outline the approach to reviewing and updating the parking strategy to ensure best use of Council assets.
Members discussed the report, and raised the following points;
- Ensuring that bicycle transport is included within the strategy. The Cabinet Member agreed that the reliance on cars needed to be reduced, and that would look to include bicycle parking within the strategy.
- Some of the Public Toilets owned by the Council were located within car parks, it was noted that it was important to ensure joined up working within these two areas.
- Car parking provision should include suitable provision of disabled bays and bays that are sufficiently wide.
RESOLVED: To recommend to Cabinet that:
- Consideration is given to whether more can be done on the widening of car parking bays within the Car Parking Strategy
- Consideration is given to the level of need for, and provision of, more disabled parking spaces.
- The provision of secure bicycle parking (for pedal and electric bicycles) is included within the strategy.
Voting record For 10, Abstentions 0, Against 0