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Report of the Director of Climate Change, Environment and Transport (CET/22/66), attached.

The Report seeks approval of the submission of an application to the DfT to acquire powers to enforce Moving Traffic Offences, approval of a policy for Parking Management in Communities (including Pay & Display) and a proposed policy for sponsorship and advertising on highway assets and associated infrastructure.

There are three Impact Assessments relating to:

1.    Moving Traffic Enforcement

2.    New Parking Management Pay and Display Schemes

3.    Advertising on the Highway

attached for the attention of Members at this meeting. They are also published on the website at https://www.devon.gov.uk/impact/published/

RESOLVED

(a) that in relation to Moving Traffic Offences (MTOs)

(i) the submission of an application to the DfT to acquire powers to enforce MTOs under Part 6 of The Traffic Management Act 2004 in Tranche 3 of applications expected to be July 2023 be approved; and

(ii) that the Director of Climate Change, Environment and Transport in consultation with the Cabinet Member for Highway Management be given delegated authority to approve future enforcement sites.

(b) in relation to Pay and Display

(i) that the proposed policy for Parking Management in Communities

(including Pay & Display) as laid out in Appendix D, be approved;

(ii) that the advertising of schemes in the communities as laid out in

Appendix E also be approved; and

(iii) that the Director of Climate Change, Environment and Transport in

consultation with the Cabinet Member for Highway Management be

given delegated authority to make minor amendments to policy and

schemes where appropriate.

(c) regarding advertising on the highway

(i) that the proposed policy for sponsorship and advertising on highway

assets and associated infrastructure be approved; and

(ii) that the Director of Climate Change, Environment and Transport in

consultation with the Cabinet Member for Highway Management be

given delegated authority to make minor amendments to the policy

where appropriate.

(Councillors Biederman, Brazil, Dewhirst and Whitton attended in accordance with Standing Order 25(2) and spoke to this item).

The Cabinet considered the Report of the Director of Climate Change, Environment and Transport (CET/22/66), circulated prior to the meeting in accordance with regulation 7(4) of the Local Authorities (Executive Arrangements) (Meetings and Access to Information) (England) Regulations 2012.

The Report sought approval of the submission of an application to the DfT to acquire powers to enforce Moving Traffic Offences, approval of a policy for Parking Management in Communities (including Pay & Display) and a proposed policy for sponsorship and advertising on highway assets and associated infrastructure.

Regarding Moving Traffic Offences, following the introduction of new legislation, the list of restrictions available for local authorities to enforce using MTO powers was shown in Appendix A. The intention was to apply for inclusion in tranche 3, expected to be open for applications in July 2023 with powers likely to be confirmed by the end of 2023. The application would include the whole of Devon which was already designated as a civil enforcement area for parking conventions.

It was important that any proposed sites were underpinned by an accurate Traffic Regulation Order and that appropriate signs and markings were in place. Any equipment proposed for enforcement must be approved by the Vehicle Certification Agency. It was proposed to use DCC’s existing CCTV cameras to capture contraventions. Contraventions would be identified by a mixture of manual observations from recordings at proposed locations and artificial intelligence using externally sourced software.

Whilst an order covering the whole of Devon already designated as a civil enforcement area for parking conventions would be applied for, it was proposed to include a limited number of sites for the initial enforcement activity which had been identified based on concerns over safety, congestion, active travel priority or public transport reliability, as below.

1.            Heavitree Fore Street, Exeter – Bus Lane

2.            Exe Bridges, Exeter – Bus Lane

3.            Exe Bridges, Exeter – Yellow Box Junction

4.            Penn Inn, Roundabout Newton Abbot – Yellow Box Junction

5.            Topsham Road / Burnthouse Lane, Exeter – Bus Lane

6.            The Square (near Boutport Street) Barnstaple – Bus Lane.

A Spotlight Review into Moving Traffic Offences had been undertaken by the Corporate Infrastructure and Regulatory Services Scrutiny Committee in July 2022. The Report recommended that the Authority applied for powers. Cabinet further noted the proposal to report to Scrutiny 12 months after the start of enforcement.

In relation to Pay and Display, it was proposed that a Policy be adopted to proactively review parking management in communities and introduce pay & display where there was a traffic management need. The Policy had been developed by the highways team in liaison with the Economy team and was included in Appendix D. The Policy identified 8 communities as priorities for review, a list of which was available in Appendix E and it was proposed that schemes were developed and advertised for those communities later this year.

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