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WRITTEN QUESTION TO THE MINISTER FOR TREASURY AND RESOURCES BY DEPUTY R.G. LE HÉRISSIER OF ST. SAVIOUR
ANSWER TO BE TABLED ON TUESDAY 6th MARCH 2012
Question
What steps, if any, is the Minister taking to improve the provision of parking at La Rue des Pres Trading Estate, with particular reference to the use of the public car park?
Answer
The Minister refers the Deputy to the answers to his questions 4156 tabled in January 2009 and 5235 tabled in March 2010, when it was explained that this is not a public car park under the Road Traffic (Public Parking Places) (Jersey) Order 1985 and that Jersey Property Holdings (JPH) did not have powers to police car parks. The questions and responses are attached for ease of reference.
The car park is a private car park in public ownership that is managed by JPH with no limits to its use. To limit use would require some mechanism, such as a barrier entry system or permit, which regulates usage. A charge would then need to be levied to offset cost of operation.
In the Minister's view, there is an expectation that the car park is to be made available to the public with some regulation as to its use by commercial enterprises.
Various options have previously been put forward by JPH, including converting the car park to a public car park under the 1985 Order, to be administered and policed by either Transport and Technical Services or the Parish. To date neither authority has indicated a willingness to take over this responsibility.
Obviously each landowner or operator has the responsibility in conjunction with the Planning Department to ensure sufficient staff and customer parking for the operation of their business.
There is a restrictive covenant in each deed of ownership that requires each owner to provide on site car parking. The deeds also prohibit retailing to be undertaken on the site, however, when originally developed the then Island Development Committee gave consent for retailing to take place, with what clearly now appears to be insufficient on site parking provision.
The Minister believes that this long-standing issue needs to be addressed and the Assistant Minister would welcome entering into discussions with the Parish officials and the TTS Minister and his officers to determine a means to transfer the site to an authority that has appropriate policing powers in order that it can indeed be converted to a public car park and policed in accordance with the Law.
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