There are a number of stages involved in the review, these are shown below. The current stage is: Approval
- Introduction
- Committee authorisation
- Informal consultation
- Advertisement and objections
- Approval
- Implementation
Introduction
The deadline for requests for new parking controls to be considered as part of this parking review was at the end of June 2018. All of the requests we'd received were assessed based on road safety, accessibility, congestion, the possibility of just displacing a problem and how many people supported the change.
We received around 370 individual requests, along with 19 parking scheme requests forms (petitions).
Committee authorisation
Our report of recommendations was presented to the local committee for initial approval under Item 8 of the meeting of 26 November 2018. The report had three annexes:
- 1 - Description and explanation of proposals - a table and drawings of recommended proposals
- 2 - Petition responses and recommendations
- 3 - Locations rejected
The committee approved the report with the following changes and additions:
- Bridge Road and Creek Road, East Molesey - provide two '30 minute' parking bays (replacing existing bays) at the north-east end of Bridge Road and extend the proposed bays on Creek Road across the unused access outside numbers 13/15.
- Manordene Close, Thames Ditton - add a proposal to introduce double yellow lines along one side of the road.
- Thames Street, Weybridge - modify the times of the proposed and existing hours of operation of the school keep clear markings to better match the opening hours of the school.
- Re-consider the idea of introducing permit parking controls in Dorchester Road and Gascoigne Road, as well as modifying existing schemes in Limes Road and Minorca Road.
The committee's decision to re-consider potential schemes at this stage is likely to affect overall timescales for the parking review.
Officers met have now meet with county and borough members to discuss potential options for new permit parking schemes in Weybridge, and the agreed schemes will be 'advertised' with the rest of the parking review in due course.
Informal consultation
We recently carried out parking consultations in three roads in the borough as part of this review. The consultation closed on Monday 8 April. Since then we have analysed the results and made the decisions about whether or not to proceed with a proposal in each area. The reports and decisions for each location are below:
- Broomfield Court (Weybridge) report (PDF). Decision is to proceed with proposals.
- Matthew Arnold Close (Cobham) report (PDF). Decision is to proceed with proposals.
- Claremont Close (Hersham) report (PDF). Decision is not to proceed with proposals.
The proposals for Broomfield Court and Matthew Arnold Close will be advertised along with the other schemes approved as part of this review (see below for details).
Advertisement and objections
We recently advertised our intention to introduce the new parking controls and restrictions. For this we published a notice in the Surrey Advertiser on 7 June. We also put up notices near where the new restrictions were proposed, and notified people most directly affected by post.
The closing date for comments was Friday 5 July 2019. We are currently considering the feedback received, before making the final decisions. The details of the advertised proposals are still available below, although you can no longer comment on them.
Below there is a document called 'Elmbridge parking review proposals 2018-19' which lists all the proposals, with a description and the reason that we want to install them, as well as the number of the drawing that they are on. If you want to find a particular location, open this document, press 'ctrl' and 'F' together and a search box will appear, type in the name and press the return key. The drawings have been sorted into packs by electoral division, and are arranged in numerical order within the pack.
Documents relating to the proposals:
- Elmbridge parking review proposals 2018-19 (PDF)
- Proposal drawings - East Molesey & Esher (PDF)
- Proposal drawings - West Molesey (PDF)
- Proposal drawings - Hinchley Wood, Claygate and Oxshott (PDF)
- Proposal drawings - Cobham (PDF)
- Proposal drawings - Hersham (PDF)
- Proposal drawings - The Dittons (PDF)
- Proposal drawings - Walton (PDF)
- Proposal drawings - Walton South & Oatlands (PDF)
- Proposal drawings - Weybridge (PDF)
Approval
The parking team manager, in consultation with the chairman/vice chairman of the local committee and the county councillor of the area concerned, considered all comments and objections, before making a final decision about which proposals should go ahead, and whether any should be changed or withdrawn.
The final decisions and reasons for them are detailed in our report below, along with revised drawings where applicable:
Please note, drawing numbers 30, 31 and 32.1, are withdrawn.
Anyone who raised a comment or objection will receive a letter or email to advise of the outcome. There is no 'appeal' stage.
Implementation
Now that the final decisions have been made, we will go back on site to carry out 'detailed design' in order to specify the new signs and lines required and place a works order with our contractors.
At the same time, we'll finalise the traffic regulation orders, and publish a 'made notice' in the local press.
Once the traffic orders are made, and the new signs and lines are in place, the new restrictions will come into effect.
Files available to download
- Elmbridge parking review 2018-19 - proposal drawings - East Molesey & Esher (1.8 MB)
Drawings showing proposals in the East Molesey & Esher division, advertised June 2019 - Elmbridge parking review 2018-19 - proposal drawings - West Molesey (416.9 KB)
Drawings showing proposals in the West Molesey division, advertised June 2019 - Elmbridge parking review 2018-19 - proposal drawings - Hinchley Wood, Claygate and Oxshott (766.1 KB)
Drawings showing proposals in the Hinchley Wood, Claygate and Oxshott division, advertised June 2019 - Elmbridge parking review 2018-19 - proposal drawings - Cobham (714.2 KB)
Drawings showing proposals in the Cobham division, advertised June 2019 - Elmbridge parking review 2018-19 - proposal drawings - The Dittons (1.5 MB)
Drawings showing proposals in The Dittons division, advertised June 2019 - Elmbridge parking review 2018-19 - proposal drawings - Hersham (622.5 KB)
Drawings showing proposals in the Hersham division, advertised June 2019 - Elmbridge parking review 2018-19 - proposal drawings - Walton (541.0 KB)
Drawings showing proposals in the Walton division, advertised June 2019 - Elmbridge parking review 2018-19 - proposal drawings - Walton South & Oatlands (605.2 KB)
Drawings showing proposals in the Walton South & Oatlands division, advertised June 2019 - Elmbridge parking review 2018-19 - proposal drawings - Weybridge (1.3 MB)
Drawings showing proposals in the Weybridge division, advertised June 2019 - Elmbridge parking review proposals 2018-19 (319.4 KB)
A table explaining our parking proposals and reasons for them, advertised June 2019 - Claremont Close consultation report - May 2019 (102.3 KB)
A report showing the results and decisions following the parking consultation in Claremont Close - Broomfield Court consultation report - May 2019 (87.3 KB)
A report showing the results and decisions following the parking consultation in Broomfield Court - Matthew Arnold Close consultation report - May 2019 (99.4 KB)
A report showing the results and decisions following the parking consultation in Matthew Arnold Close - Elmbridge parking review 2018-19 - drawings amended following objections (1.2 MB)
Drawings showing proposals amended following objections, finalised September 2019 - Elmbridge parking review 2018-19 - Objections and decisions report (976.8 KB)
Report detailing the objections received, along with our final decisions and reasons for them, finalised September 2019