Agenda item

To consider a report proposing the amendment of the Macclesfield Borough Council (Off Street Parking Places)(Civil Enforcement and Consolidation) Order 2008 (‘the Order’) the effect of which will be to introduce control and charging to the car park to be known as the Remenham Car Park, Chapel Lane, Wilmslow.

The Cabinet Member for Environmental Services considered a report proposing the amendment of the Macclesfield Borough Council (Off Street Parking Places)(Civil Enforcement and Consolidation) Order 2008 (‘the Order’) the effect of which would be to introduce control and charging to the car park to be known as the Remenham Car Park, Chapel Lane, Wilmslow.

The proposal to introduce charging for parking and control at the site through civil enforcement should help to ensure that the site was not misused, to increase available public off street parking in this part of Wilmslow, and to secure an income for the Council from the asset.

When the site was vacated, there was a distinct risk that current customers of public car parks in the town centre would seek to transfer to Remenham to avoid paying charges. The site could accommodate a minimum of 57 vehicles which, if parking all day, represented lost income from other car parks of at least £50,000 per annum.

The proposed charges for the use of the car park were revised at the meeting to a scale considered more appropriate for a car park of this type.

RESOLVED

That the Cabinet Member for Environmental Services approves that

(1)   subject to (a) statutory consultation; (b) the appropriation of the Land for parking purposes; and (c) the grant of any planning consent required, a proposed amendment to the Macclesfield Borough Council (Off Street Parking Places)(Civil Enforcement and Consolidation) Order 2008 (‘the Order’) be approved, the effect of which would be to make provision for control and charging for parking on land known as the Remenham Car Park, Chapel Lane, Wilmslow shown edged in red on the plan annexed to the report (‘the Land’) as follows:

(a)   that the charges payable in connection with the use of the Parking Place (Monday to Saturday between the hours of 8.00 am and 6.00 pm) would be:

(b)   that the hours of operation of the Parking Place would be all days and all hours;

(c)   that the Parking Place may be used by the following classes of vehicles: (i) motor cars (within the provisions of section 136(2) of the Road Traffic Regulation Act 1984 (‘the 1984 Act’)); (ii) motor cycles (as defined by section 136(4) of the 1984 Act); (iii) other motor vehicles (of a gross weight not exceeding 3.5 tonnes); (iv) invalid carriages (as defined by section 136(5) of the 1984 Act);

(2)   the Borough Solicitor, or officer acting on her behalf, be authorised to publish a notice of proposals in relation to the proposed amendment order, with any objections to be made within the statutory consultation period of twenty-one days. In the event that objections are received, for these to be referred back to the Cabinet Member for consideration at a future meeting;

(3)   in the event that no objections to the proposed amendment order are received, and subject to: (i) the appropriation of the Land for parking purposes; and (ii) the grant of a relevant planning consent (if required), the Borough Solicitor, or officer acting on her behalf, be authorised to make and bring into force the proposed amendment order (as set out in (1) above) and to give notice thereof in accordance with statutory requirements.