Agenda item

Motion Submitted by the Green Party Group - A Parking Policy to Work for Clean Air and on the Climate Crisis

 

This Council notes:

 

Parking policy has the potential to be one of most effective tools councils can use to reduce car dependency and promote road safety. Trafford Council can free up space, create an attractive public realm and work towards our Climate Emergency and Vision Zero ambitions. The time for this has never been so urgent. UN Secretary General, Antonio Guterres, told world leaders at the opening of Cop 27: “We are in the fight of our lives and we are losing. Our planet is fast approaching tipping points that will make climate chaos irreversible.” This Council can use its parking controls to incentivise and enable a shift towards more sustainable transport that will benefit all road users. This must also be fair and not disproportionately affect the less well off in the borough.

 

The Campaign for the Protection of Rural England (CPRE) Parking Policy Benchmark Tool suggests a range of practical measures by which parking policy can be utilised to support its vision and principles. This Council notes that many of these measures are already being actively implemented by councils around the UK and recommends that there should scrutiny of these measures to assess their viability for adoption in Trafford.

 

This Council believes:

 

The CPRE Parking Policy Benchmark Tool 2022 offers a template which this Council could use to reset its own parking controls. This Council should share its vision and principles:

 

-         Recognition of the need to reduce car use and ownership, and the role parking policy plays in this.

-         Recognition of the role parking policy plays in improving air quality and public health.

-         Recognition of the role parking policy plays in creating safe and attractive streets.

-         Recognition of the role parking policy plays in reducing greenhouse gas emissions.

-         A pledge to make parking policy fair for all residents, not just car owners.

-         A hierarchy of kerbside use that places Blue Badge holders and sustainable uses above car parking.

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This Council resolves to:

 

-         Instruct Scrutiny to set up a Task and Finish Group to assess Trafford Council’s parking controls that reports with recommendations to the Executive by no later than the end of January 2024.

-         Contact the CPRE to notify them of this work and invite them to advise the Task and Finish work.

-         Create a list of borough-wide schemes that could benefit from extra parking revenue funding that meet our Vision Zero ambition.

-         Write to Sarah Storey, Active Travel Commissioner, to inform her that we are undertaking this work and that it relates to our Vision Zero ambition.

Minutes:

 

It was moved and seconded that:

 

This Council notes:

 

Parking policy has the potential to be one of most effective tools councils can use to reduce car dependency and promote road safety. Trafford Council can free up space, create an attractive public realm and work towards our Climate Emergency and Vision Zero ambitions. The time for this has never been so urgent. UN Secretary General, Antonio Guterres, told world leaders at the opening of Cop 27: “We are in the fight of our lives and we are losing. Our planet is fast approaching tipping points that will make climate chaos irreversible.” This Council can use its parking controls to incentivise and enable a shift towards more sustainable transport that will benefit all road users. This must also be fair and not disproportionately affect the less well off in the borough.

 

The Campaign for the Protection of Rural England (CPRE) Parking Policy Benchmark Tool suggests a range of practical measures by which parking policy can be utilised to support its vision and principles. This Council notes that many of these measures are already being actively implemented by councils around the UK and recommends that there should scrutiny of these measures to assess their viability for adoption in Trafford.

 

This Council believes:

 

The CPRE Parking Policy Benchmark Tool 2022 offers a template which this Council could use to reset its own parking controls. This Council should share its vision and principles:

 

-            Recognition of the need to reduce car use and ownership, and the role parking policy plays in this.

-            Recognition of the role parking policy plays in improving air quality and public health.

-            Recognition of the role parking policy plays in creating safe and attractive streets.

-            Recognition of the role parking policy plays in reducing greenhouse gas emissions.

-            A pledge to make parking policy fair for all residents, not just car owners.

-            A hierarchy of kerbside use that places Blue Badge holders and sustainable uses above car parking.

 

This Council resolves to:

 

-            Instruct Scrutiny to set up a Task and Finish Group to assess Trafford Council’s parking controls that reports with recommendations to the Executive by no later than the end of January 2024.

-            Contact the CPRE to notify them of this work and invite them to advise the Task and Finish work.

-            Create a list of borough-wide schemes that could benefit from extra parking revenue funding that meet our Vision Zero ambition.

-            Write to Sarah Storey, Active Travel Commissioner, to inform her that we are undertaking this work and that it relates to our Vision Zero ambition.”

 

It was moved and seconded as an amendment that:

 

This Council notes:

 

Parking policy has the potential to be one of most effective tools councils can use to reduce car dependency and promote road safety. Trafford Council can free up space, create an attractive public realm and work towards our Climate Emergency and Vision Zero ambitions. The time for this has never been so urgent. UN Secretary General, Antonio Guterres, told world leaders at the opening of Cop 27: “We are in the fight of our lives and we are losing. Our planet is fast approaching tipping points that will make climate chaos irreversible.” This Council can use its parking controls to incentivise and enable a shift towards more sustainable transport that will benefit all road users. This must also be fair and not disproportionately affect the less well off in the borough.

 

The Campaign for the Protection of Rural England (CPRE) Parking Policy Benchmark Tool suggests a range of practical measures by which parking policy can be utilised to support its vision and principles. This Council notes that many of these measures are already being actively implemented by councils around the UK and recommends that there should scrutiny of these measures to assess their viability for adoption in Trafford.

 

This Council believes in:

 

The CPRE Parking Policy Benchmark Tool 2022 offers a template which this Council could use to reset its own parking controls. This Council should share its vision and principles:

 

-            Recognition of the need to reduce car use and ownership, and the role parking policy plays in this.

-            Recognition of the role parking policy plays in improving air quality and public health.

-            Recognition of the role parking policy plays in creating safe and attractive streets.

-            Recognition of the role parking policy plays in reducing greenhouse gas emissions.

-            A pledge to make parking policy fair for all residents, not just car owners.

-            A hierarchy of kerbside use that places Blue Badge holders and sustainable uses above car parking.

 

This Council resolves to:

 

-            Welcome the Scrutiny Task and Finish Group set up to look at how the Council can help reduce car usage across the Borough and recommends the group considers parking policy as part of the review.

-            Instruct Scrutiny to set up a Task and Finish Group to assess Trafford Council’s parking controls that reports with recommendations to the Executive by no later than the end of January 2024.

-            Contact the CPRE to notify them of this work and invite them to advise the Task and Finish work.

-            Create a list of borough-wide schemes that could benefit from extra parking revenue funding that meet our Vision Zero ambition.

-            Write to Sarah Storey, Active Travel Commissioner, to inform her that we are undertaking this work and that it relates to our Vision Zero ambition.”

 

The mover and seconder of the Motion signified acceptance of the amendment, which was then put to the vote and declared carried.

 

(Note: Before the debate on the substantive Motion, the time being 8:55 p.m., the Mayor indicated that speeches on this matter would now be limited to a maximum of one minute per speaker.)

 

Following a debate on the matter, the substantive Motion was agreed with the Council’s unanimous consent.

 

RESOLVED: That this Council notes:

 

Parking policy has the potential to be one of most effective tools councils can use to reduce car dependency and promote road safety. Trafford Council can free up space, create an attractive public realm and work towards our Climate Emergency and Vision Zero ambitions. The time for this has never been so urgent. UN Secretary General, Antonio Guterres, told world leaders at the opening of Cop 27: “We are in the fight of our lives and we are losing. Our planet is fast approaching tipping points that will make climate chaos irreversible.” This Council can use its parking controls to incentivise and enable a shift towards more sustainable transport that will benefit all road users. This must also be fair and not disproportionately affect the less well off in the borough.

 

This Council believes in:

 

-            Recognition of the need to reduce car use and ownership, and the role parking policy plays in this.

-            Recognition of the role parking policy plays in improving air quality and public health.

-            Recognition of the role parking policy plays in creating safe and attractive streets.

-            Recognition of the role parking policy plays in reducing greenhouse gas emissions.

-            A pledge to make parking policy fair for all residents, not just car owners.

-            A hierarchy of kerbside use that places Blue Badge holders and sustainable uses above car parking.

 

This Council resolves to:

 

-            Welcome the Scrutiny Task and Finish Group set up to look at how the Council can help reduce car usage across the Borough and recommends the group considers parking policy as part of the review.

-            Create a list of borough-wide schemes that could benefit from extra parking revenue funding that meet our Vision Zero ambition.

-            Write to Sarah Storey, Active Travel Commissioner, to inform her that we are undertaking this work and that it relates to our Vision Zero ambition.