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We carried out our first parking survey on Wednesday 21 March 2007, during Brookes' semester. The graph below shows the results.
We will repeat the survey during the vacation on a Tuesday and a Wednesday, and then again on a Tuesday after Easter, as we believe that the level of student parking varies significantly during the week.
If you'd like to help out with surveying - each round takes less than 10 minutes - please get in touch with Stephen at No. 62.
David Sutton has been in contact with the County Council to obtain information on possible residents’ parking schemes and traffic calming. This revealed that consultation in relation to a Residents’ Parking programme for the Divinity / Southfield / Hill Top area is to be started in June / July 2007. The consultations and legal procedures can take 18–20 months before any parking restrictions are implemented. Residents are consulted, traffic surveys carried out and commuter data collected before decisions are taken.
Residents’ parking requires there to be parking bays. One of the issues that will arise is that Hill Top Road is only wide enough for residents’ parking bays on one side of the road unless part of the pavement is also used to provide the required width of clear road.
The regulations for parking bays are as follows:
- 3 metres width of road must be clear of parked vehicles
- 1.8 metres width required for parking bays
Therefore the road needs to be a minimum of 6.6 metres wide to allow parking on both sides of the road.
Our road is 6.1 metres wide, mostly, so this is not wide enough to allow parking on both sides of the road. Elsewhere (eg. Bickerton Rd) part of the pavement is used for parking bays but there must be a walkway of at least 1 metre. Most of our pavements are 1.5 metres wide. It is possible therefore that some pavement could be used to allow parking on both sides of the road.
You can ask for your driveway to be marked by a white painted line, currently costing £50. This deters people from parking there; the householder can, of course, park on the line.
There are no traffic calming measures planned by the Council. They can be asked to consider calming measures as a result of increased traffic or a history of accidents. Parking and road width can influence measures adopted. Options are humps or speed cushions. Also, DRARA are actively campaigning for the area to be a 20mph zone. We are also writing a letter to the golf club asking them to remind members to watch their speed.
If you want more information before the consultation starts or you have views on residents' parking or traffic calming that you'd like to feed in, please contact David at No. 12.