Residents’ Parking Scheme - survey results in

Release Date:  17-Feb-2010

A decision on whether to proceed with the proposed residents’ parking scheme in Cliftonwood will be made by Bristol City Council’s Cabinet in March.

A consultation of residents on the final designs of the Cliftonwood and Kingsdown schemes closed at 5pm last Friday. The survey results show a response rate of 25% of households in Cliftonwood and 18% in Kingsdown.

Councillor Jon Rogers, Cabinet Member for Transport and Sustainability said: “All the way through this process we promised to engage local residents. We are very pleased with the response rate to the recent survey and it has provided us with key information on the level of support for the schemes from within the proposed zones.

“The decision will be now made at the Council's Cabinet on March 25th.”

The Council is now following the formal statutory advertisement of the proposal for Cliftonwood, which runs until 4th March.

Work on the Kingsdown proposal continues a few weeks behind and is planned to be advertised formally towards the end of March. It is proposed that the Cabinet will delegate the decision on whether to go ahead on the Kingsdown scheme to the Strategic Director of City Development following the completion of its own statutory consultation.

Survey results

For Kingsdown, results have been calculated for the whole survey area and then separated out to show the response from the Cotham area to the north separately from the original scheme area. The results were as follows:

Cliftonwood - Whole area
Total responses 457

• Agree 176 (38.5%)
• Disagree 262 (57.3%)
• Undecided 19 (4.2%)

Kingsdown - Whole area
Total responses 565

• Agree 253 (44.8%)
• Disagree 268 (47.4%)
• Undecided 44 (7.8%)

Kingsdown - North of Cotham Road
Total responses 125

• Agree 50 (40%)
• Disagree 68 (54.4%)
• Undecided 7 (5.6%)

Kingsdown - Original area (excluding North of Cotham Road)
Total responses 440

• Agree 203 (46.1%)
• Disagree 200 (45.5%)
• Undecided 37 (8.4%)

The scheme boundaries, scheme design and associated information are available online at www.bristol.gov.uk/respark.

For more information please contact the Bristol City Council press office on 0117 922 3332/2649

Author:  James Easey, Service Manager, Media, 0117 9223332

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