Agenda item

Officer presentation.

Tim Walker, Senior Engineer within Public Realm introduced the report and provided a summary of the consultation that took place in the streets south of Peckham Road during November and December 2012. The council carried out the consultation on the principle of parking controls around a set of streets which involved 2000 properties which covered Peckham and Nunhead and the other half covered Camberwell community council.

The last consultation was in 2006 since then 2 other zones were introduced within the near vicinity which that were largely supported by residents.  In April 2012 Camberwell community council received a deputation from residents about the parking situation in the area which had changed significantly hence the reason why the decided to carry out a consultation on the matter.  In September 2012 the community council agreed the consultation methods and boundary and then carried detailed parking occupancy surveys in October the same year.  This was followed by a further consultation in November and December 2012 which included all properties in the area which included key stakeholders.

Tim referred to the illustrated map of streets that were consulted on and those that already have operated parking zones.

The consultation had a 20% response rate with a significant higher response rate in some street than others.  Three petitions against the proposal of parking controls and overall 77% of residents were not in favour of a CPZ in their area. A breakdown of the responses street by street were detailed in the report where it indicated that every street in the consultation zone were against in principle of any parking controls.

The next stage would be for officers to draft a decision report to the cabinet member for transport, environment and recycling to agree the following recommendations:

That the council would not proceed with the installation of a parking zone in the area or move to a second stage consultation with detailed designs.  The installation of double yellow lines at the junctions within the project area and de-cluttering all parking and street furniture.  Any formal comments from the community council on the recommendations would be included in the report for the cabinet member to make a final key decision.

In addition to the above an independent road safety audit would be commissioned with the council’s recommendations and if approved a statutory consultation would be carried out with expected implementation in June /July 2013.

Councillor Mark Glover referred to the officer’s comments concerning support for the scheme in the Camberwell area and those who opposed the scheme were mostly residents in Peckham.  He said most people he spoke to in the residential streets that cover both areas were not in favour of any sort of parking zone in the area. 

Members expressed concern about how often these consultations were taking place and the cost involved especially if they were not necessary. Officers were advised that any study or consultation on CPZs should not be revisited in this area for at least 10 years unless there are good grounds for doing so.

Tim took questions from councillors and the audience.

A resident who lives in Consort Road, asked about pavements and street lighting along Peckham High Street.  She said the pavements were in such disrepair and people with walking difficulties would trip and that this had been like that for two years and yet. She asked if the council were able to some pressure on TfL because the pavements were all cracked. The other point related to street lighting along Consort Road which was very low. 

The resident explained that there were only two street lights, a mile apart from each other which have very low orange lighting.  People could easily break an ankle when entering the OAP block in the winter.  The repair and improvement of pavements and street lighting should be given consideration above consultations. 

In response to questions the chair, Councillor Soanes highlighted to the community council that they were looking at street lighting and will ask officers to have a look at the lighting (and raise costings) along this road.  Last year Peckham and Nunhead CC updated lighting on Mission Place in Peckham.  The community would now like to look at other streets this year which is why I am asking officers to look at this and raise costings.

The chair thanked Tim Walker for his presentation.