Road Traffic (Public Parking Places) (Jersey) Order 2006

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A decision made 22 December 2010 regarding: Road Traffic (Public Parking Places) (Jersey) Order 2006 - amendment

Decision Reference: MD-T-2010-0133
Decision Summary Title :	Amendment to Road Traffic (Public Parking Places) (Jersey) Order 2006.		Date of Decision Summary:	20 December 2010
Decision Summary Author:	Assistant Manager Parking Control		Decision Summary: Public or Exempt? (State clauses from Code of Practice booklet)	Public
Type of Report: Oral or Written?	Written		Person Giving Oral Report:	N/A
Written Report Title :	Amendment to Road Traffic (Public Parking Places) (Jersey) Order 2006.		Date of Written Report:	20 December 2010
Written Report Author:	Assistant Manager Parking Control		Written Report : Public or Exempt? (State clauses from Code of Practice booklet)	Public
Subject: Amendment to Road Traffic (Public Parking Places) (Jersey) Order 2006 to schedule Ann Place~~Court~~ ~~Street~~ Car Park and Charles~~Brooklyn~~ Street Car Park on the Ann Court Site.
Decision(s): The Minister agreed to have the Road Traffic (Public Parking Places) (Jersey) Order 2006 amended.
Reason(s) for Decision: 1) To allow the Ann Place~~Street~~ Car Park to be established as a chargeable public car park for long stay parking, with a maximum stay period of seven consecutive days, and to permit overnight parking for commercial vehicles over 15ft in length. 2) To allow the Charles~~Brooklyn St~~ Street Car Park to be established as a chargeable public car park for short stay parking, with a maximum stay period of three hours during any one visit. 3) To remove Gas Place Car Park from the Schedule upon its closure.
Resource Implications: Law Drafting time.
Action Required: Officers to instruct the Law Draftsman to prepare an Amendment for subsequent submission to the Minister.
Signature:		Position:
Date Signed:		Date of Decision (If different from Date Signed):

Road Traffic (Public Parking Places) (Jersey) Order 2006 - amendment

TRANSPORT AND TECHNICAL SERVICES

AMENDMENT TO ROAD TRAFFIC (PUBLIC PARKING PLACES) (JERSEY)

ORDER 2006

TO SCHEDULE A SHORT AND LONG STAY CAR PARK ON THE

ANN COURT SITE

Purpose of the Report

To allow the Road Traffic (Public Parking Places) (Jersey) Order 2006 to be amended to provide public ‘Short Stay’ and ‘Long Stay’ parking at Ann Court

Background

Gas Place Car Park is to be closed to allow the creation of the Town Park and Ann Court has been identified as a replacement site for some of the lost public parking.

It is intended that the Ann Court site will provide a mixture of short stay shoppers parking and long term commuter parking. To be consistent with chargeable off-road public parking elsewhere in the Town, short stay shoppers parking will be limited to a maximum stay of three hours during any one visit and long stay commuter parking will be limited to a maximum continuous period of seven days.

The closure of Gas Place means the loss of overnight parking for commercial vehicles with a length of over 15ft, therefore it is also proposed to permit the overnight parking of these vehicles in the new car park.

Discussion

In order to be able to charge for parking at Ann Court and to allow TTS’s Parking Control Officers to police and enforce parking controls, it is necessary to schedule the Ann Court site as two separate public car parks, which will be divided and provided with separate entrances and exits.. The short stay area will be called Charles~~Brooklyn~~ Street Car Park, with 47 spaces, and the long stay area will be called Ann PlaceSt Car Park, with 133 spaces. The existing site walls, wooden hoardings, paint markings and signage will be used to clearly divide the short and long stay parking areas.

To provide for these changes the Road Traffic (Public Parking Places) (Jersey) Order 2006 will need to be amended to reflect this. A further amendment is also required to permit the overnight parking of commercial vehicles of over 15ft in length in the Ann PlaceSt Car Park. In addition to this Gas Place will also need to be removed from the Order upon its closure on 10 January 2011.

Parking within these two ~~schedule~~ ~~Ann~~ ~~Court site~~ car parks would be chargeable between 8.00am and 5.00pm at the rate of one unit per hour or part thereof and Season Tickets would be valid within the Ann Place~~Court~~ Long Stay Car Park.

Recommendations

The Minister is recommended to approve the establishment of Ann Place Car Park and Charles Street Car Park ~~and Brooklyn St Car Park~~ on the Ann Court site and to direct his Officers to instruct the Law Draftsman to prepare an Amendment to the Road Traffic (Public Parking Places) (Jersey) Order 2006 to incorporate this.

The Minister is further recommended to direct his Officers to instruct the Law Draftsman to prepare a supplementary Amendment to the Road Traffic (Public Parking Places) (Jersey) Order 2006 to remove Gas Place from the Schedule upon its closure.

Reason(s) for Decision

To enable the establishment of Ann Place Car Park and Charles Street Car Park on the Ann Court Site.

Resource implication

Law drafting time.

Action Required

Officers to instruct the Law Draftsman to prepare the necessary Amendment to the Road Traffic (Public Parking Places) (Jersey) Order 2006 for subsequent submission to the Minister.

Written by: Assistant Manager Parking Control

Approved by: Acting Director of Transport