Purpose

To agree to advertise various changes to the
traffic regulation order relating to:
Guildford Lido,
Lawn Road,
Millmead House (Front) and
Station Parade East Horsley car parks and, Formalisation of various
Electric Vehicle Charge Points throughout the car parks.
+ Various other minor amendments

Content

Decision:
That the Executive agrees
to formally
advertise amendments to the Traffic Regulation Order as
follows:

(1)             
To formalise the Electric Vehicle Charge Point
(EVCP) spaces in all car parks where they are made
available.

(2)             
To standardise the EVCP KwH tariff so that it
operates 24/7 rather than part-time, so that both parking charges
and tariffs will apply simultaneously during the hours when parking
charges apply.

(3)             
In regard to Guildford Lido car
park, to change
the name from Lido car park to Guildford Lido car park and
introduce a (virtual) permit / prioritisation scheme for users of
the Guildford Lido facility that operates between 8am-6pm
Monday-Sunday.

(4)             
In regard to Millmead House (front) car
park / Lawn Road car park, to extend the control hours
of the car parks from Monday-Sunday 8am-6pm to Monday-Sunday
8am-10pm, extending the virtual permit scheme in the
‘front’ car park to cover the Monday-Friday 8am-10pm
period and parking charges in both car parks to cover the Saturday
6pm-10pm and Sunday 5pm-10pm periods. These car parks are presently
only charged during the daytime at
weekends.

(5)             
In regard to East Horsley Kingston Meadow and
Sutherland Memorial Park car parks, to revise the formalised
parking controls so that only the disabled bay and manner of
standing provisions are retained and all other restrictions
relating to free limited waiting, payment and no return on the same
day are removed.

(6)             
To revoke the orders relating to the following car
parks – these have either closed, or GBC Parking no longer
has any involvement with their enforcement, management and upkeep:
Bellerby Theatre car park, College Road car park, Commercial Road
1&2 car parks, Guildford Youth & Community Centre car park,
Moorfield Road car park, Old Police Station car park and Ripley
(White Hart Meadows) car park and Victoria Court car
park.

(7)             
In regard to the Green Scheme, to cease the informal
concession/ permit scheme for users of full-EVs (FEVs) and to allow
the annual permits to expire at the end of March 2025 and not
renew, nor allow new applications to join the scheme during the
remainder of the 2024-25 financial year.
Reasons:

·          
To improve prioritisation of the parking spaces
within car parks to better meet the needs of their intended users
and for those car parks where it is recommended that the parking
orders should be revoked, to reflect the closure / changed
circumstances associated with those facilities.

·          
Previously EVCP recharging the in daytime was free
and, in the evening/overnight its was charged. Although not covered
by the TRO published by the government in November 2023, it is
recommended that the EVCP tariff be standardised.

·          
The informal Green Scheme discounted/free parking in
several of the Borough Council’s car parks should be
formalised to manage the permit scheme more effectively.
Options considered and
rejected:

(a)        
Do nothing

(b)        
Some or all of the recommendations could be
implemented however this would not resolve all the issues raised
and identified.
Details of any conflict of interest declared by
the Leader or lead councillors and any dispensation
granted:
None.