Paper petition details

Council response

Response sent to lead petitioner 27/11/17
Thank you for submitting your petition for a Controlled Parking Zone in Melbourne Avenue. Our traffic team, having analysed the details, is satisfied that this demonstrates clear majority support for a parking scheme in your road.

Our typical approach is to follow up 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 Kelvin Avenue 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.