Council response

Response to lead petitioner sent 29/11
Thank you for submitting your petition for a Controlled Parking Zone in Kelvin Avenue. Our traffic team, having analysed the details, believes this falls just short of the 50% support threshold. This is based on our records of the number of individual dwellings within the street, including numerous original houses that have been subdivided. Please see the review document attached.

The traffic team suggests that you compare this list with your own document and with the property numbers evident from the street. Should you advise us of property numbers we have listed that do not exist, we will be happy to revise our figures. We often find that support levels at petition stage are not sustained once formal CPZ consultation is carried out, so I hope you will understand why we wish to be certain that support levels in Kelvin Avenue pass the threshold.

Our typical approach is to follow up validated petitions received in Year 0 with a Stage 1 consultation exercise in Year 1 (i.e. after April 2018, in this case) to confirm levels of support and to establish the preferred hours of the restrictions. This is as per our CPZ consultation charter, which I attach. Should the necessary threshold of support be found at Stage 1, then Stage 2 consultation follows based on a defined layout of bays and restriction times. Stage 3 is the statutory exercise to confirm the necessary traffic orders before the signs are installed. These stages are not normally completed until sometime in Year 2.

You mention similar petitions being raised from nearby streets following the extension of the Haringey CPZ in January this year. I can confirm that a petition for Melbourne Avenue demonstrating majority support has been received in recent times. Petition proformas for Belsize Avenue have been issued but no petition has yet been received. We will consult our elected decision maker to discuss whether there is a case to consult more widely and pre-emptively across the Bowes area or else to continue with our normal approach, which is to respond reactively on a street-by-street basis. Reasons why the latter approach is normally favoured include the tendency for levels of support to drop between petition and Stage 1 consultation, and to ensure we are proposing schemes where they enjoy genuine majority support, not imposing them on the unwilling.

You can contact the following officer in the traffic team with any further questions:
Jonathan Goodson
020 8379 3474
jonathan.goodson@enfield.gov.uk.