Issue - meetings

Brent Council is committed to providing a high quality parking service and a fair, consistent and transparent approach to parking and traffic enforcement. We hope that the publication of statistical and financial information will support achievement of these objectives. The purpose of the Annual Report is to explain the aims and objectives of the Council’s Parking service and the key achievements of the last financial year. The Report includes a statistical analysis setting out information on the number of parking and traffic related Penalty Charge Notices (PCNs) issued for the period 2015/2016, the revenue and expenditure recorded in our Parking Account, and how the surplus on this account has been spent or allocated. 

The Report also meets a key requirement set out in the 2015 Statutory Guidance issued under the Traffic Management Act 2004. This requires local authorities to produce and publish online an annual report on parking enforcement activities.

(i)         that approval be given to the publication of the Parking Service’s draft Annual Report 2015/16, set out as the Appendix to the report ;

(ii)        that responsibility for approval of Parking Annual Reports from 2016/17 onwards be delegated to the Highways Committee;

(iii)       that it be noted that additional information on the outcome of appeals to the independent appeal service, Environment and Traffic Adjudicators (ETA), will be added to the published Annual Report in September 2016.

Councillor Southwood, Cabinet Member for Environment, introduced the report stating that Brent Council was committed to providing a high quality parking service and a fair, consistent and transparent approach to parking and traffic enforcement. She said that the purpose of the Annual Report was to explain the aims and objectives of the council’s Parking service and the key achievements of the last financial year.

Councillor Southwood stated that the report included a statistical analysis setting out information on the number of parking and traffic related Penalty Charge Notices (PCNs) issued for the period 2015/2016, the revenue and expenditure recorded in the Parking Account, and how the surplus on this account has been spent or allocated.

The report also met a key requirement set out in the 2015 Statutory Guidance issued under the Traffic Management Act 2004. This required local authorities to produce and publish online an annual report on parking enforcement activities.

Councillor Hirani welcomed that the number of PCNs issued by CCTV for bus lane contraventions had fallen.

Councillor Southwood reminded members that a highlight of the year for the service had been the British Parking Association’s decision to recognise Brent’s Parking service as ‘Team of the Year’ at the BPA’s national awards ceremony in March 2016.

RESOLVED:

(i)         that approval be given to the publication of the Parking Service’s draft Annual Report 2015/16, set out as the Appendix to the report;

(ii)        that responsibility for approval of Parking Annual Reports from 2016/17 onwards be delegated to the Highways Committee;

(iii)       that it be noted that additional information on the outcome of appeals to the independent appeal service, Environment and Traffic Adjudicators (ETA), will be added to the published Annual Report in September 2016.