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The feasibility study for Cheapside Residents Parking Zone and the progress of implementing it and omitting parking spaces at Elizabeth Place

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WRITTEN QUESTION TO THE MINISTER FOR TRANSPORT AND TECHNICAL SERVICES BY THE CONNÉTABLE OF ST. HELIER

ANSWER TO BE TABLED ON TUESDAY 11th MARCH 2008

Question

Would the Minister state -

  1. when the ParishofStHelier first supplied the TransportandTechnicalServicesdepartment with the final version of the feasibility study for theCheapsideResidents' Parking Zone(RPZ)?
  2. when he indicated his willingnessto take forward a revised scheme, omitting the provision of parking spaces in Elizabeth Place?
  3. given that theParishAssembly approved the projet to implement the CheapsideRPZon25thSeptember 2007, would the Minister advisememberswhether any progress has been made todate, and if not, why?

Answer

  1. The final version of the feasibility studyfortheCheapsideRPZwasreceivedon31stMarch2006by which time the Parish had been informed that the department's priority was drafting the Integrated Travel and Transport Plan and that the RPZ should notbe considered until this hadbeencompleted.
  2. I am not awareof ever indicating a willingness to approve the project to date,as I have alwaysharboured a number of concerns and reservations. At the lowerend of the scale, I havebeenanxious not to beseento be biased towardmyownconstituencyofSt Helier No.3,ofwhich the Cheapsideareaforms a part.There is alsothe question of the ongoing review of parking inStHelier as a whole,whichisnot yet concluded,as well as the entire issueof loss ofprovisionand possibly revenue to the publicof the Island foreachpublic parking space that ishandedover to St Helier residents, who pay theirRPZfees to the Parish ofSt Helier. However,in the light of the continuing setbacks to the finalisation of the ITTP, I undertookto take forward the revised schemewhichomittedparkingon the ring road (which the departmenthad indicated wasnot acceptable) in November 2006. This was subject to a resolution as to whowould pay forthepolicingof these zones.Anagreed formula had been reached in respect of the first RPZ (Stopford Road) and itwas anticipated that this formula would be utilised for all other RPZs. Unfortunately, theConstableofStHelier objected to paying the Car Park Trading Fund for policingwhat is, exclusively, a Parish zone. I held a meeting with the Constablein October 2007 atwhichhe agreed, subject to discussions with his officers, for the Parish to take over the policing.Disappointingly, the matter remains unresolved.
  3. Since September2007, a definitive law drafting brief(asrequiredbyboththedepartment and the law officers) has been finalised and forwarded to the Law Draftsman's Office.