OFF STREET PARKING PLACES (CONSOLIDATION) (AMENDMENT NO. 4) ORDER 2024 PART B
A question to ask. Is it worth responding to a consultation when no one is listening? Main Street car park is about to become an off street parking site. Ordinarily, I wouldn’t complain, the car park used to be permit parking only. However changes are being introduced under the Road Traffic Regulation Act 1984, sections 32 and 35 which read, section 32 part 1:
(1)Where for the purpose of relieving or preventing congestion of traffic it appears to a local authority to be necessary to provide within their area suitable parking places for vehicles, the local authority, subject to Parts I to III of Schedule 9 to this Act—
Schedule 9 deals with experimental orders:
(1) The traffic authority for a road may, for the purposes of carrying out an experimental scheme of traffic control, make an order under this section (referred to in this Act as an “ experimental traffic order ”) making any such provision—
(a)as respects a road outside Greater London, as may be made by a traffic regulation order;
(b)as respects a road in Greater London, as may be made by an order under section 6, 45, 46, 49, [F2or 83(2) or by virtue of section 84(1)(a)]] of this Act.
Parking Charges.
Monday to Saturday, 8:00am to 6:00pm, parking charges will apply:
- Up to 1 hour – £1.00
- Up to 2 hours – £2.00
- Up to 3 hours – £3.00
- Over 3 hours – £4.00
Residents and families using the Car park will have to find an extra £24.00 per week, or £1,248.00 per annum, at the height of a cost-of-living crisis, which is continuously emphasised by the Leader of Bradford Council. To put that another way, that’s a month’s mortgage payment on a £250,000 property, the current minimum price of a terraced house on Main Street.
Relief or prevention of traffic congestion.
I’m not entirely sure of how the application of charges at Main Street will prevent or relieve congestion of traffic. This policy is short sighted and is likely to create a whole new set of parking issues as current users will be displaced. Add to that the fact that the Conservative government encouraged flexible working arrangements, and that the Labour government are considering further reforms to policy. So where are these ‘flexible workers supposed to park? Clearly not along Main Street, there are parking restrictions already in place, albeit that parking places are limited.
Here’s the notice
Notice is hereby given that City of Bradford Metropolitan District Council made the above Order on 22nd August 2024 under its powers contained in the Road Traffic Regulation Act 1984, the effect of which is to introduce the following:
- ‘Off Street Parking Places’ at Main Street, Burley in Wharfedale and The Green, Idle.
The Order comes into force on 22nd August 2024 and a copy of the Order together with a map showing the affected roads may be examined during normal office hours at the Customer Services Reception, Ground Floor, City Hall, Bradford, BD1 1HY and Bingley Library.
If you wish to question the validity of the Order, or of any provision contained therein on the grounds that it is not within the powers conferred by the Road Traffic Regulation Act 1984, or on the grounds that any requirements of that Act or of any Instrument made under it, have not been complied with in relation to the Order, you may, within six weeks from the date upon which the Order was made on 22nd August 2024 apply to the High Court for this purpose.
Dated this 22nd day of August 2024
SEALED ORDER (PART B)
