Received a report suggesting an alteration to current
policies in respect of front garden parking, increasing the number
of private motor vehicles that can be parked in a front garden to
more than one vehicle.
Agreed, in order to ease on street parking problems in the
Borough, to:
- Amend the existing
policies so that tenants and owner occupiers of houses, tenants and
leaseholders of certain ground floor flats that have gardens with
direct access to the highway, may with prior permission of the
Council park more than one private motor vehicle in their front
garden.
This is subject to
the garden being of a size able to accommodate more than one
vehicle and where there is a carriage crossing in place and it is
feasible, to extend or strengthen the footpathor if necessary to
provide a second crossing. In the case
of ground floor flats, permission would only be granted following
consultation and the agreement of other residents in the block;
- Amend the
restrictive covenant in future Right To
Buy sales to allow with the prior permission of the Council the
parking of more than one private motor vehicle where the garden is
of a size to accommodate this. The
carriage crossing requirement will still apply; and
- Delegate decisions
regarding front garden parking and appeals to the Director of
Housing and Health in conjunction with the Director of Regeneration
and Environment.