Decision details

(i)            that the results of the pilot parking initiative trialled in the Queens Park area to help alleviate congestion outside local schools be noted;

(ii)          that the proposal to proceed to formal consultation on making parking free in the pay and display bays in Chevening Road and Kingswood Avenue, adjacent to Queens Park, between 15:00 and 16:30 be not agreed;

(iii)         that further to the meeting held on 20 January 2016 between officers, ward councillors, QPARA members and school representatives officers work towards establishing a transport consortium of local stakeholders to further discuss what solutions can be found to alleviate the congestion outside schools in the area and not to encourage car usage, in keeping with the council’s wider transport strategies and to report back to the Highways Committee at its next meeting around June 2016;

(iv)         that consideration be given to how the outcomes from the discussions referred to in (iii) above can be used as a template for tackling wider issues across the borough concerning car usage and parking around schools.