Reigate and Banstead Parking Review 2023 to 2024

There are a number of stages involved in the review and these are explained below. This parking review is now underway.

The current stage is: Approval

Introduction

Starting in July and continuing through August 2023 we will be assessing on-street parking concerns across the borough by carrying out site visits. These are the concerns that have been brought to our attention largely by members of the public, the police, councillors, and highway officers since the previous review took place. We assess the requests based on road safety, accessibility, congestion, the possibility of just displacing a problem and how many people have requested a change.

After completing all the site visits, we will prepare a report of our findings and recommendations.

Authorisation

We shall present this report of our findings and recommendations to the County Councillors for Reigate and Banstead Borough. Each County Councillor will need to agree and approve the Parking Engineer's proposals for their division. Once agreement has been reached, we shall advertise the proposals, allowing the local community to have their say on the proposals.

Advertisement and objections

We are now advertising the proposals by way of a notice in the Surrey Mirror on 29 February 2024. We will also put up street notices on site at each location, as well as sending a letter to those properties immediately fronting locations where changes are proposed.

Towards the bottom of the page there is a document called Reigate and Banstead parking review 2023 to 2024: Statement of reasons (PDF), which contains a description of all the proposed changes and why we wanted to introduce them. Underneath that are packs of drawings showing the proposals and the statement of reasons tells you which of the drawings shows each proposed change. In the statement of reasons the proposals are sorted by electoral division and then by town and the drawings are combined into packs for each councillor division.

All the documents will also be available to view at the following locations across the borough during normal opening hours:

  • Reigate and Banstead Borough Council, Town Hall, Castlefield Road, Reigate, Surrey, RH2 0SH
  • Horley Library, Unit 1 (55-57) Russell Square, Victoria Road, Horley RH6 7QH
  • Banstead Library, The Horseshoe, Bolters Lane, Banstead, Surrey, SM7 2AW
  • Reigate Library, Bancroft House, Bancroft Road, Reigate, Surrey, RH2 7RP
  • Merstham Library, Community Hub, 2a Portland Drive, Merstham, Redhill, RH1 3HY
  • Tattenhams Community Library, Tattenham Crescent, Epsom Downs, KT18 5NU
  • Surrey County Council, Hazel House, Merrow Lane, Guildford, Surrey, GU4 7BQ (by appointment)

There is now a period, ending on 29 March 2024, during which you can let us have your views about any of the proposed changes. If you wish to comment on, support, or object to any of these proposals, you can do so either:

Please make sure we have received your comments by 29 March 2024. Please note that we will not be looking at these responses in detail until after the deadline for making comments has passed, so please do not include questions or queries in your response.

Approval

All the feedback following the advertising stage is then compiled into a report. This report is then distributed to councillors and the Traffic Enforcement and Parking Team Manager to read. Together they made decisions on how to proceed at each location, taking the feedback submitted during the consultation into account.

The final recommendations are presented in a 'Decisions Report', which will be published below on this web page. It will also be distributed to everybody who participated in the consultation to let them know the outcome.

Implementation

Then works orders will be raised with our lining and signing contractors to install the agreed changes.

A final Traffic Regulation Order (TRO) will then be made and published. This will make all the changes made in the parking review legally enforceable by Civil Enforcement Officers.

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