Decision details

That (A) the comments of the joint meeting of Scrutiny Committees be noted;

(B)     the proposals for off-street pay and display charges as detailed in this report and Essential Reference Paper ‘B' be approved for consultation;

(C)    the following associated budget changes be approved:

(i)                a one-off special item of £30,000 to fund extensive consultation through the publication of relevant Traffic Regulation Orders and any subsequent costs of signs and machine programming, to be funded from the Contingency budget in the 2014/15 budget;

(ii)              an increase of £50,000 to the budget for the Council’s Enforcement Contract to enable evening enforcement, to be funded from the contingency budget in the 2014/15 budget and will form part of the overall budget setting process in future years;

(iii)            additional one off funding of £1,500 in year one and £1,000 per subsequent year for additional reports to monitor car park usage, to be funded from the contingency budget for 2014/15 and for future years will form part of the overall budget setting process;

(iv)     £255,000 of the Priority Spend budget be vired to car park income budgets for 2014/15 to address any shortfall in income from these proposals, the full year effect in 2015/16 being £340,000;

(D)    Officers be requested to:

(i)                progress the required Traffic Regulation Order ensuring the consultation process is robust and wide ranging;

(ii)              commence discussions to establish whether Jackson Square can be included within the car park pay and display policy;

(iii)            commence negotiations with the enforcement contractor to establish an evening enforcement operation to cover Hertford, Ware and Bishop’s Stortford; and

(iv)     submit a further report to the Executive following analysis of consultation feedback.