Recommendations from the meeting of the Cabinet Housing and Planning Panel on 10 April 2017 providing an update on current work programmes and proposing future work programmes for parking restrictions and improvements.
(1) The Decision Taken
RESOLVED:
(1) That the update on the current 2016/17 work programme be noted and the parking services programme for 2017/18, as recommended by the Panel, be approved.
(2) That the Panel recommendation that the remainder of the Lemsford Road and French Horn Lane schemes (both in Hatfield Central and East – Areas 3 and 4) be placed on hold, until a decision had been made about the planning application for building the multi-storey car park in The Common, Hatfield.
(2) Reasons for the Decision
Throughout the year, the Council received many requests for parking restrictions and parking improvements through a number of different channels. It was important to manage public requests and expectations and producing an annual work programme, which covered both parking restrictions and parking improvements helped the Council to achieve this.
Hatfield town centre was currently being re-developed and as part of this the Council would be looking to submit a planning application this year to construct a multi-storey car park on The Common. It was proposed to re-provide the current parking provision into the new multi-storey car park.
With this in mind, it made sense to stop further consultation within the immediate area of the town centre until a decision had been made on the planning application. The construction of the multi-storey car park was likely to influence residents’ responses to any parking consultation which took place. Once a decision had been made these areas would be added back in to the work programme as previously agreed.
(Note: There were no declarations of interests by a Member(s) in respect of the matter decided).