Issue - meetings

This report concerns the publication of the annual report for the financial year 2010/11.  It explains how parking enforcement is managed and provides information about performance.  The Cabinet Member for Communities and Neighbourhood Services is asked to approve the publication of the report attached at Annex A.

RESOLVED:                That the Cabinet Member considered the report and agreed to its publication on the Council’s website.

REASON:                     To comply with statutory guidance to provide information and transparency about parking services enforcement in York.

The Cabinet Member for Communities and Neighbourhoods considered a report which introduced the Annual Parking Services Report for the financial year 2010/11. The Cabinet Member was asked to approve the publication of the report on the Council’s website.

Officers outlined the report, in particular that the Secretary of State’s ‘Statutory Guidance to Local Authorities on the Civil Enforcement of Parking Contraventions’ states that local authorities should produce annual reports on their enforcement activities.

Councillor Warters who had registered to speak on this item queried enforcement activity against grass verge parking and vehicles obstructing pavements. Officers advised that it is difficult to prevent such occurrences and that a bye law for York would be too costly.

The Cabinet Member advised that she was happy to approve the report for publication.

RESOLVED:                That the Cabinet Member considered the report and agreed to its publication on the Council’s website.

REASON:                     To comply with statutory guidance to provide information and transparency about parking services enforcement in York.