Disadvantages of this option include:

There are two alternatives:

Option 3: 10.30am to 2.30pm - Monday to Friday

Option 4: 10.30am to 2.30pm - Monday to Saturday.

We know that many residents feel that a ‘commuter ban’ might provide a solution, without the complication of a permit system. Consequently, we have considered the option of a commuter ban to deal with your current on-street parking problems.

Consultation Questionnaire return by 29 November 2009

Other Local Issues

Commuter ban

What happens next?

What if my builder or tradesperson needs to park close to my house?Residents can give their tradesperson a visitor voucher permit to display. They can then park in a permit holder bay. If the builder or tradesperson needs to park outside your house and they can demonstrate clearly that there is a need for the vehicle to be parked in close proximity to your property, it may be possible to either suspend a bay or to issue a dispensation to park on yellow lines. This usually only applies to commercial vehicles and a daily or weekly charge is made.

What about parking for shops and businesses in the area?Around the Cassiobury shops we are proposing to include 1 hour FREE parking bays so that customers can pop into the shops at any time during the working day. We will also provide 3 hour parking bays but parkers will need to ‘pay and display’ a ticket. The charge will be £1 per hour. Outside the Cassiobury Veterinary Practice we are also proposing similar 3 hour pay and display bays.

What if I am a business and I need to park an operational business vehicle?Businesses may qualify for a business permit which will allow them to park in permit bays and shared use bays. These are shared with permit holders and those paying and displaying a ticket.

One permit is allowed per qualifying business. Up to two registration numbers can be printed on it provided that both are operational vehicles. Only one vehicle can be parked in the zone at a time. The cost of the permit is £150 per annum.

Qualifying businesses will have to demonstrate that they have no space to park vehicles within their premises, that the vehicle is registered to the business and the business is registered for business rates.

Watford Football Club and Saracens Rugby Club fansMany fans who support Watford’s football and rugby clubs park their cars in nearby residential roads and continue their journey on foot. Matches can take place on weekday evenings, Saturday, Sundays and bank holidays. The CPZ scheme proposals do not operate at these times. How-ever, should a scheme be introduced then as part of a review of the CPZ, the Council could add these controls at a later date.

Please note that Option 4 does provide a restriction on Saturdays from 10.30am to 2.30pm. If residents support this option it will provide a deterrent for those looking for spaces to park up to 2.30pm on a Saturday.

There will be a local neighbourhood forum on Tuesday 10 November, starting at 7.30pm at the small hall of Watford Colosseum where you will have the opportunity to clarify any questions that you may have about the proposals.

The detailed proposals are on display from 9-27 Novem-ber at the Town Hall and there are informal drop in sessions at Cassiobury Infant and Nursery School on 17 and 21 November 2009. This informal consultation closes on 29 November 2009. Please ensure you return your questionnaire so that your views can be taken into account.

The decision will be made by Watford Borough Council’s Cabinet on 14 December 2009.

The Cabinet meeting, which the public are able to attend will be held in Committee Room 2 at the Town Hall, at 7.30pm. The public cannot speak at this meeting however the Cabinet will consider the feedback from the consulta-tion and decide whether or not the scheme should proceed to the next stage which is a statutory con-sultation.

If a decision is made to proceed then the statutory consul-tation will take place in Spring 2010 and if the scheme is supported the anticipated implementation will be during the late Summer 2010.

To qualify you would need to prove residency and would have to be the registered keeper, or permanent user of any vehicle nominated. Company cars, lease cars or hire cars may also qualify.

You would need to provide one of the following docu-ments with your current address:

• vehicle registration document• insurance document• official bill of sale or invoice• Official company letter for company cars, or a recent and valid lease or hire agreement.

Vehicle sizes are limited to 5.25 metres long and/or 2.3 metres high.

How much would a permit cost?Current permit charges are £20 per year for the first permit, and £40 for the second permit.

Fees in Watford aren’t designed to produce profit but cover the cost of parking attendants and managing the scheme.

The first permit is free for drivers who are Blue Badge Holders.

Motorcyclists would also require a permit. These cost £20 for either the first or second permit per household.

What about family and friends?Residents would be able to buy books of vouchers for visitors to use. Each council tax household would be entitled to purchase 400 hours of vouchers per year. Pensioners (those over 60 years of age) would have double the allowance.

In addition, there would be an allowance of 2 one-week voucher permits and 15 four-hour voucher permits for each council tax household per year, to cater for longer visits. Pensioners would have double the allowance.

The voucher permits are scratch cards and would need to be validated by scratching off the relevant day/date/time sections. Visitors to households in the CPZ scheme can then park their cars in the permit holder bays or shared use bays by displaying the validated voucher.

How much would the voucher permits cost?

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Option 1 - Keep things as they are

Option 2 - Introduce double yellow lines at road junctions to stop parking at the junctions

Option 3 - Introduce CPZ to operate Monday to Friday from 10.30am to 2.30pm

Option 4 - Introduce CPZ to operate Monday to Saturday from 10.30am to 2.30pm

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Consultation on Parking Optionsfor the Cassiobury estate

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Have your say

This leaflet will give you an idea of what is being proposed. If you would like to discuss the options in more detail, we would welcome you at informal drop-in sessions on:

Tuesday 17 November 2009 between 6.30pm and 9.30pm OrSaturday 21 November 2009 between 2pm and 5pm

at Cassiobury Infant & Nursery School Hall,Bellmount Wood Avenue, Watford, WD17 3PE

Please see map on the reverse for the location, the venue is wheelchair accessible.

We also have the proposals on display at our Customer Service Centre at the Town Hall.

The opening hours are: Mon to Fri 8.30am - 5.30pm. The map on the reverse shows our location.

If you would like to speak to us call us on:

01923 278081 or email: cassioburyparking@watford.gov.uk

Find out about the options

What are the options?

What is a controlled parking zone?

We are proposing a controlled parking zone for part of the day. However, if this is not acceptable to residents and businesses on the estate, we can leave things as they are or carry out limited safety measures such as stopping parking at road junctions.

We would like your views on all of these options

Controlled parking zones (known as CPZs) are areas where all parking on the street is controlled.

This would mean parking bays are shown by white road markings and the remainder of the kerbside is subject to parking restrictions. The process of controlling where people park allows us to keep roads free from dangerous and obstructive parking.

Normally CPZs operate to give residents and their visitors priority over the available parking space on the roads.

Proposals on display at the Town Hall

Residents have told us that inconsiderate commuter park-ing is resulting in parking problems within the estate. In some roads residents have difficulty entering or safely exiting their driveways because cars are parked too close to driveway entrances which obscures visibility. A similar situa-tion occurs in places where cars are parked too close to road junctions.

We have carried out some survey work and after carefully considering the concerns in the area we have put together proposals to control the parking. We would like to have your views on these proposals.

The Council will use the feedback from this consultation as a basis to form a decision on whether or not to proceed with the proposals. It is therefore very important that you take part in this consultation and let us have your views.

You can either fill in, detach, seal and post the attached Freepost questionnaire or tell us your views by visiting: www.watford.gov.uk/askcassiobury

Signs are erected at the entry roads to all CPZs stating the hours during which the controls and yellow line restric-tions are operational. Visitors who come into the area to park can either obtain a visitor voucher from the resident they are visiting or pay to park by using pay and display machines. CPZs are monitored by the Council’s parking attendants. Failure to display a valid permit could result in a penalty charge notice (PCN) being issued.

Option 1: Keep things as they areThis would mean that the Council stops any further work regarding parking proposals however we would continue to issue parking tickets to vehicles that are parked over dropped kerbs preventing access to driveways.

Option 2: Stopping parking at road junctionsDouble yellow line restrictions would be put in place to ensure that vehicles are not parked within 10 metres of road junctions. With this option no other parking control changes would be made.

An advantage of this option is improved safety at road junctions through better visibility.

A disadvantage of this option is that people who seek free parking all day on local roads will continue to do so.

The Options

puts off the majority of ‘commuter parking’ who normally require parking throughout the working day

residents and their visitors will have a better chance of parking within a reasonable distance of their homes

obstruction of driveways will be less likely to occur

on-street parking for residents and their visitors will be restricted to where it is safe to park

anyone can park in the permit bays and on the single yellow lines before 10.30am and after 2.30pm

traffic flow and access for emergency vehicles should be improved

reduced visual impact of cars parked in roads

on-street parking for residents and their visitors will be restricted between 10.30am - 2.30pm.

residents and their visitors will have to pay to park on the street between 10.30am - 2.30pm.

increased visual impact of white and yellow road markings, signs and posts on local roads and a number of pay and display machines on pavements.

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5. Do you experience parking problems in your street?

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6. Do you have any further comments that you would like taken into consideration?

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This would involve installing yellow lines on both sides of the road, that operate at different times.

For instance one side of the road would stop parking between 10am to 12 noon, and lines on the opposite side would stop parking between 12 noon and 2pm.

This can work well in some situations for example, around rail/tube stations and where residents have enough off street parking. However, a commuter ban would not work across the whole of the Cassiobury estate.These restric-tions would also limit the amount of kerbside parking available in some streets because there isn’t enough park-ing on some sides of the roads in between the driveways for the residents that want to park. Also residents who might want to leave their cars all day would have to move their vehicles at least once to ensure that they do not leave their cars parked on a yellow line when it is in force. For these reasons, this option has not been pursued.

Who could apply for a resident parking permit?Residents who live within the CPZ would be able to apply for a permit. A maximum of two permits are allowed for each council tax address provided the qualification criteriaare met. Permits last for one year.

Option 3 & 4: Controlled Parking Zone 10.30am to 2.30pmThe Council implements a Controlled Parking Zone throughout the Cassiobury estate which operates from 10.30am to 2.30pm Monday to Friday (Option 3) or 10.30am to 2.30pm Monday to Saturday (Option 4).

The CPZ would include some space for limited non-resident parking through ‘pay and display’ parking.

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Pay and display bays10.30am - 2.30pm(no maximum time andadvance payment allowed)

Pay and display bays8am - 6.30pm(3 hours max)

These bays are shared with both permit holders and those paying and displaying a ticket. This allows parking by the display of a valid permit or visitor voucher, or a pay and display ticket. Blue badge holders can park in these bays without a time limit.

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We have also provided some long term pay and display bays which offer the facility to park all day with an advance payment inserted in the machines. See map for the positions.

Pay and display bays provide a facility for anyone requiring to park for up to three hours within the controlled period.

These bays are provided for the customers of the Cassiobury shops and one hour free parking is allowed on each visit.

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Driveways marked out inside Parking Bays As part of the proposals some drive-ways are marked with white lines positioned inside parking bays. All residents will sign a declaration, upon purchase of their permit, agreeing that they will not obstruct these areas and that their permit may be cancelled or withdrawn if they do so. However, you can park across your own driveway, inside a parking bay, at any time but during the control period of the zone you must display a valid permit.

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