Revised parking changes for Brent including £25 diesel car supplement

The Brent Cabinet on June 27th will consider recomendations LINK for revised parking charges.

.        2.0  Recommendations 
Cabinet is asked to formally express its thanks to all those who responded to the on-street parking consultation, and then agree: 
Demand-Led Pay and Display Tariffs: 


.        2.1  To freeze parking prices in Pay & Display bays borough-wide. 
Daily Visitor Parking Charges: 


.        2.2  To proceed to formal consultation on a Traffic Management Order, under the Road Traffic Regulation Act 1984, introducing new visitor parking charges in CPZ areas, with a £1.50 charge for up to 2 hours, a £3 charge for up to 4 hours, and a £4.50 charge for ‘all-day’ visitor parking of more than 4 hours. 


.        2.3  To delegate authority to implement the price changes following formal consultation, including amendment of any relevant Traffic Management Orders, to the Strategic Director Regeneration & Environment, in consultation with the Lead Member for Environment. 
Visitor Household Permit 
 

.        2.4  To retain the Visitor Household permit.  

.        2.5  To increase the charge made for the Visitor Household permit, from 1^st October 2016, to a 2016/17 rate of £163 for a full year; £98 for 6 months and £66 for three months; and with future increases linked to the price of a third Resident Parking Permit for vehicles in the proposed ‘Standard’ emissions band. 
Carer and Support Permit: 


.        2.6  Dependent on agreement to recommendation 2.4 above, to withdraw the proposal to introduce a new Care and Support permit. 
School Parking Permits: 


.        2.7  In respect of parking for school staff: 
§ To allow schools within CPZs to purchase a maximum of 3 business permits, at the standard rate (£366 in 2016/17) and terms & conditions, with immediate effect; 
§ To introduce a new scheme allowing qualifying schools to:

§  Purchase a maximum of 3 school staff parking permits at a rate discounted by 25% 
to reflect term-time use only, providing the school has a bronze level accredited 
travel plan; 


§  Purchase additional school staff parking permits at the reduced term-time rate should 
they have either a silver (up to 6 school permits in total) or a gold (up to 9 school permits in total) level accredited travel plan. 
Residents Parking Permits: 


.        2.8  From 1^st April 2017 to amend the resident parking permit scheme as follows:

§  Simplifying emission-based bandings for resident household permits, as set out in 
paragraph 7.3, to provide a clearer signal and encouragement to switch to lower- 
emission vehicles 


§  Introducing a minimum charge of £25 for a resident’s parking permit for any 
vehicle (other than a powered two-wheel vehicle) 


§  Reducing the permitted size of vehicles with resident permits to those weighing 
no more than 3.5 tonnes 


.        2.9  To agree in principle to introduce a £25 supplement for diesel car permits, reflecting their additional contribution to air pollution, with effect from 1^st October 2018 to give adequate notice and therefore time for owners to change to less polluting vehicles or transport modes. 


.        2.10  To note that further research is required regarding the proposal to reduce resident permit entitlement from 3 permits to 2, as set out at paragraph 7.2. 
Visitor Permit Entitlement: 


.        2.11  Dependent on agreement to recommendation 2.4 above (to continue the offer of the Visitor Household permit), to cap the number of visitor permits any household can buy to a maximum of 300 permits p.a., commencing from 1^st April 2017. 
Trader Permits: 


.        2.12  To develop and introduce a new one-day All Zones trader’s permit, allowing a business vehicle to park in any CPZ within Brent for one day. 


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.        CPZ Concerns 
Cabinet 27 June 2016 On-Street                          2.13 To note that a further report detailing and scoping a comprehensive review of the operation of CPZs will come to Cabinet in the autumn.