Parking charges based on CO2 emissions

The public notice

Public notices may often be seen in the classified advertisement pages of local newspapers. They describe, in some detail, and often in formal language, particulars of the local authority's proposals for traffic schemes, planning applications and other such topics.

This notice sets out the proposals for the new method by which parking permit charges will be calculated, following the Cabinet meeting in January, and explains how you may make formal, or statutory, objections before the proposals are introduced and become legally enforceable.

Read the public notice about the review of on-street parking permit charges here.

Representations/objections closed on 16th March.

Introduction to the draft Order

An Order is the legal document which provides for the introduction and enforcement of a local event - such as an Anti Social Behaviour Order (ASBO), or a Compulsory Purchase Order (CPO). For traffic and parking matters, the local authority has a range of Traffic Management Orders and Parking Places Orders for things like yellow lines, banned turns, one-way streets.

The draft Order here will become the actual Order by which the new parking permit charges will be introduced (subject to the outcome of this final consultation). There are already a number of separate Parking Places Orders in force - one for each Controlled Parking Zone (CPZ) in the borough. This draft Order will apply to every CPZ. Although this makes it a bit more complicated to read, it is much easier to propose one draft Order than it would have been to write over 20 almost identical orders - one for each existing zone!

Read the draft Order here(pdf, 879KB).

Statement of Reasons

A Statement of Reasons gives the Council's general principals for wanting to introduce the measures. The Orders are the detailed legal documents which give effect to the reasons, and the Notice is a general summary of the Orders.

Read the Statement of Reasons here.

How the new charges are calculated

The new charges are based on:

• The existing charges for each controlled parking zone
• A discount or an increase – depending on the amount of CO2 emissions or, for older cars, the engine size.
• An additional charge for the second, third etc permit issued to any household

Read more about how the new parking charges are calculated.