Issue - meetings

Having considered an officer report, and a presentation by the jobshare

Cabinet Member for Safer Communities, Councillor Joani Reid , the Mayor

and Cabinet agreed that

(1) a Traffic Management Order be made applicable to roads in the borough

to allow for Penalty Charge Notices to be issued in contravention of the order

under the provisions of the Road Traffic Regulation Act 1984 (as

amended by section 87 of the Environment Act 1995), throughout the

borough;

(2) the Head of Parking Operations, be authorised, acting in his name and on

his behalf, to authorise traffic marshals to exercise the powers; and

(3) officers should, where appropriate, utilise the powers to allow for Penalty

Charge Notices to be issued in contravention of the order under the  

provisions of the Road Traffic Regulation Act 1984 (as amended by section 87

of the Environment Act 1995).

In introducing the policy, Councillor Reid stated it would be particularly

important to discourage idling near schools and officers would be empowered

to issue penalty charge notices.

Having considered an officer report, and a presentation by the jobshare

Cabinet Member for Safer Communities, Councillor Joani Reid , the Mayor

and Cabinet, for the reasons set out in the report and by a vote of 9-0:

RESOLVED that:

(1) a Traffic Management Order be made applicable to roads in the borough

to allow for Penalty Charge Notices to be issued in contravention of the order

under the provisions of the Road Traffic Regulation Act 1984 (as

amended by section 87 of the Environment Act 1995), throughout the

borough;

(2) the Head of Parking Operations, be authorised, acting in his name and on

his behalf, to authorise traffic marshals to exercise the powers; and

(3) officers should, where appropriate, utilise the powers to allow for Penalty

Charge Notices to be issued in contravention of the order under the 

provisions of the Road Traffic Regulation Act 1984 (as amended by section 87

of the Environment Act 1995).