Residents' Parking Schemes

Formal public consultation for the proposed Silverdale Road and Cawte Road Residents' Parking Schemes begun last week.

A traffic regulation order was published on 28th November. Notices will go up on lamp posts and an advert in the Echo to advise of the formal consultation period. This ends on 7th January. It’s been slightly extended to take account of the Christmas holiday period.

Assuming all goes well the scheme is set to be implemented by the end of March.

Copies of the plans can we obtained from the Highways and Parking Services Department on 8083 2337.

Residents Parking

The results of the recent residents parking surveys in Silverdale and Cawte Road were as follows:

Silverdale

74.4% of residents favoured a residents parking scheme for the whole road, operating 8am - 6pm, Monday to Saturday, with 2 permits available.

Cawte

79.2% of residents favoured a residents parking scheme operating 8am - 6pm, Monday to Saturday. 2/3rds of residents also favoured additional restrictions in the evenings.

Freemantle's councillors will therefore be pushing the council to implement these schemes as soon as possible. There will be a further chance for residents to object once the plans are formally drawn up and put out for consultation.

Residents Parking

Surveys of residents' views on parking schemes in Silverdale Road and Cawte Road were carried out a couple of months ago.

I am told by council officers that the reults have been analysed and that there is overwhelming support for introducing schemes in these two roads.

I will post an update on this when I have all the facts and figures and after I have been briefed on the matter.

Residents Parking

This week the Council is planning to send out two surveys about possible residents parking schemes in Freemantle Ward: Silverdale Road and Cawte Road.

These surveys were due to be out by the end of March however there have been delays, in part due to concern about getting the wording right.

I am very sorry about the delay. Have been putting a great of pressure on the council to get these matters sorted as they are well overdue.

Public Rights of Way And Silverdale Road

A number of people have contacted me over the past week or so about a letter they have had from the Council about Public Rights of Way. All the questions were about Silverdale Road.

I have spoken with the Council about this and below is an explanation.


Council has been doing a review of Rights of Way in the city and is updating its formal documentation and maps.

If a path or cut way has been used over a long period of time by the public it can become a formal right of way whereby people have a right to access it.

The Council has produced some modifications to its official maps. People were given the right to object and then a public enquiry was held last year.

The results of the enquiry then went to the Inspectortate. They made some amendments. It is those amendments that the Council is referring to in its recent letter and which people can comment on. There is a final opportunity to object and objections have to go to the Inspectorate.

Silverdale Road.

Cut through to Hill Lane.
This has been confirmed as a public football and this was upheld by the Inspectorate. People can still object to this if they think that its should not be classified as such and objections need to be made to the Inspectorate by 14th March.

Cut through to Northlands Road (at the back of Grenville Court).
This was not included in the enquiry as The Banister Management Company felt that there was evidence to support that this pathway was not a public right of way and that isn't and hasn’t been treated as one in the past. This path therefore is not being looked at and will not be an official public right of way.