Issue - meetings

Surrey Heath Borough Council has secured Enterprise M3 Local Economic Partnership funding of 3.5m towards the improvement of the public realm in High Street, Knoll Walk and Princess Way, Camberley.

As part of the improvements the parking, disabled parking, servicing bays and taxi ranks will need to be adjusted and relocated. A plan showing the proposed layout has been produced so that the Local Committee can agree the new parking layout and the necessary traffic regulation orders (TROs) can be advertised.

The Local Committee (Surrey Heath) agreed that:

(i)     A notice is advertised in accordance with the Road Traffic Regulation Act 1984, the effects of which will be to allow the implementation of a parking scheme in accordance with the plan shown at Appendix 1 (with the amendment of the 5 disabled bays to allow 3 on the Post Office side and 2 on the other side of the road).

(ii)   Agree that any objections to the traffic regulation order should be considered and resolved by the Chairman, Vice- Chairman and the Local Divisional Member in consultation with the Transport development Planning Team Leader (West), and that this issue only be returned to Committee if any objections prove insurmountable.

(iii)  Agree that the Order be made once any objections have been considered and resolved.

Reasons for decision:

Recommendations (i), (ii) and (iii) are made to enable the implementation of the parking layout for the High Street, which is essential to enable the public realm improvements to take place.

The Proposed parking plan results from consultations with key stakeholders. Traffic Regulation orders are required to implement the plan and Local Committee approval is required to advertise the TROs.

Declarations of Interest:      None

Officers attending:  Tricia Gurney, Principal Transportation Development Planning Officer

Petitions, Public Questions, Statements:  None

The Transportation Planning Officer explained that the Council had received Local Economic Partnership (LEP) funding to improve the public realm in Camberley and the report outlined the changes to be made to the High Street.   The improvements would reduce parking, but instead provided loading bays, time limited bays, taxi ranks and disabled parking spaces.  Additional taxi ranks were to be installed elsewhere to support the night-time economy. 

The Local Committee (Surrey Heath) agreed that:

(i)    A notice is advertised in accordance with the Road Traffic Regulation Act 1984, the effects of which will be to allow the implementation of a parking scheme in accordance with the plan shown at Appendix 1 (with the amendment of the 5 disabled bays to allow 3 on the Post Office side and 2 on the other side of the road).

(ii)   Any objections to the traffic regulation order should be considered and resolved by the Chairman, Vice- Chairman and the Local Divisional Member in consultation with the Transport development Planning Team Leader (West), and that this issue only be returned to Committee if any objections prove insurmountable.

(iii)  The Order be made once any objections had been considered and resolved.

Reasons for decision:

Recommendations (i), (ii) and (iii) are made to enable the implementation of the parking layout for the High Street, which is essential to enable the public realm improvements to take place.

The Proposed parking plan results from consultations with key stakeholders. Traffic Regulation orders are required to implement the plan and Local Committee approval is required to advertise the TROs.