1. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Council of the London Borough of Waltham Forest propose to make the above-mentioned Orders under sections 35, 45, 46, 49 and 124 of and Part IV of Schedule 9 to the Road Traffic Regulation Act 1984.

2. The general effect of the “Charged-For” Order would be in respect of the on-street parking places to—

(a) revise the permit pricing structure for all parking permits as set out in Schedule 1 to this Notice, to broadly accord with the DVLA vehicle emission bands [notes: (i) the cost of the paper vouchers and the “pay by phone” charges are being increased; (ii) essential users and the new multiple vehicle pool permits for residents, businesses, charities and essential users would be priced at the highest band as vehicle emissions cannot be forecast in these cases; (iii) certain permit charges are already banded but will be revised; (iv) amounts or references in brackets in the table are existing charges, all other charges are new; (v) see top of Schedule 1 for identifying vehicle bands; (vi) permit charges for market traders permits are not changing and (vii) a new category for profit making organisations (Council partners, contractors, etc. is to be included into the essential users permit scheme];

(b) If an existing ‘standard’ emission band resident permit holder now falls into the ‘high’ emission band when the proposed Order comes into operation (before 1st July 2016) then that permit holder will only pay £60, £145 or £215 (dependent on whether the permit is the 1st, 2nd or subsequent permit holder at an address) for renewal to the new ‘high’ emissions band if the anniversary of their permit falls before 1st July 2017. This would increase to £120, £210 or £280 if any subsequent renewal occurs on or after 1st July 2017;

(c) all existing ‘high’ emission band resident permit holders renewing to a ‘high’ emission band permit after the proposed Order comes into operation will be charged the ‘high’ emissions band as set out in Schedule 1 below of £120, £210 or £280 – the same will apply for any new applications;

(d) introduce “all zones” permits for businesses and charities in all controlled parking zones which have business permit provisions [notes: (i) Millicent Road and Dagenham Road (MD) CPZ is the only controlled parking zone that does not have business permit provisions; (ii) same criteria issue as existing business and charity permits; and (iii) see Schedule 1 for new permit charges;

(e) If a school possesses TfL approved STARS school travel plan which is accredited to the required level set by the Council, they may be eligible to apply for a new discretionary “term time” only school staff parking permit for certain school staff that are based outside of the Borough [notes: (i) the Council will consider how close the applicant is to public transport, the pressure on parking in the local area and whether the school is making an effort to promote walking and cycling; (ii) schools would no longer be eligible to apply for either business or charity permits; (iii) the Council would at its utmost discretion determine in each case how many permits, if any, would be allocated to a particular school; (iv) see Schedule 1 for new permit charges; (v) in the first instance of application in 2016 schools must be accredited to Bronze level of the STARS school travel plan scheme; (vi) pending the outcome of that one year review, as of 2017, schools wishing to apply for permits must be graded Silver level in the STARS school travel plan scheme; and (vii) the school must pledge that they will seek to reduce car usage and encourage walking and cycling to its pupils and staff, therein seeking to reduce the number of permit they request year on year; (viii) this permit will apply per vehicle to school staff registered at Primary and Secondary schools, including academies and free schools, across the borough located within a Controlled Parking Zone (CPZ);

(f) provide additional free 1 hour parking between 1pm and 2pm in respect of all parking places throughout the Borough where the cashless “pay by phone” and voucher systems operate, however to coincide with the recent government legislation change which by statute provides a 10 minutes grace period before any contravention occurs for parking beyond the legal parking period, reduce the current 15 minutes free parking provision at any time of the day to 5 minutes [Note: this means that the combined length of free parking time (10 minutes statutory grace period combined with the 5 minutes free parking allowed by the Council) remains the same at 15 minutes in all those parking places where the cashless “pay by phone” and voucher systems operate];

(g) extend the eligibility criteria for an essential users permit to include profit making contractors and partners of the Council (see Schedule 1 for permit charges);

(h) parking permits could be either a “hard-copy” (paper) version or a “virtual” permit, although the move is towards granting the “virtual” version;

(i) formalise—

(i) the provision of a free permit for residents who are carers in receipt of a DWP Carers Allowance or fulfills other criteria;

(ii) the provision of providing and issuing charity permits to bona fide charities;

(iii) the provision of providing and issuing “pool permits”, where more than one vehicle needs to be included, in respect of residents’, business, charity and essential users permits;

(iv) the provision of a concession, in certain circumstances, to provide a “business” permit to a resident whose vehicle being either a works vehicle or a business van, is too big to qualify for a resident’s permit;

(j) allow use of the following parking places, south of North Circular Road, save for parking places in the Chingford Lane (CL) CPZ or North Chingford (NC) CPZ, by Drive Now vehicles:

(a) permit parking places and permit shared-use parking place, without displaying a permit and without time limit;

(b) cashless parking places without paying the parking charge, up to the maximum stay period of the parking place (where such a maximum stay period applies).

3. The general effect of the “Off-Street” Order would be to—

(a) allow use of single-level off-street car parks, south of North Circular Road, by Drive Now vehicles, without paying the parking charge or displaying a permit, and without time limit (this includes all of the Council-run car parks except Hall Lane, E4 and Richmond Road, E4);

(b) increase the permit charges for parking in the Council’s off-street car parks as set out in Schedule 2 to this Notice (nb: season tickets not available for the Bedford Road or Town Hall off-street car parks).

4. In respect of paragraphs 2(j) and 3(a) above, Drive Now vehicles are liveried vehicles available for hire by users of the car share scheme known as Drive Now. The Organisation that operates Drive Now pays the Council a fee for the use of the parking places and this fee is passed on to Drive Now users as part of the hire charge.

5. Subject to any material objections, it is anticipated that all the arrangements outlined above would come into operation on 1st July 2016. Additionally, in respect of the on-street parking places, new high emission vehicle charges would be further increased on 1st July 2017 where applicable (see Schedule 1).

6. The above changes would not come into operation in respect of any experimental controlled parking zone until such time as that experimental zone becomes permanent.

7. A copy of the Orders and the Council’s statement of reasons for proposing to make the Orders can be inspected during normal office hours on Mondays to Fridays inclusive until the end of a period of 6 weeks from the date on which the Orders are made or the Council decides not to make the Orders, at (a) the Information Desk, Town Hall, Forest Road, Walthamstow, E17 The Reception Desk and (b) the London Borough of Waltham Forest, Low Hall, Argall Avenue, London, E10 7AS.

8. Any person desiring to object to the proposed Orders or to make any other representation should send a statement in writing of either their objection and the grounds thereof or of their representation to Traffic Orders, Engineering Design, Low Hall, Argall Avenue, London, E10 7AS,or by email to parking.services@walthamforest.gov.uk, quoting reference T7(16) by the end of a period of 28 days from the date on which this Notice is published. All objections must specify the grounds on which they are made.

9. For more information please telephone 020 8496 3000, quoting reference Traffic Orders T7(16).

Dated 7th March 2016

Mr. K . Valavan, Head of Highways and Infrastructure, Neighbourhoods, Low Hall, Argall Avenue, London, E10 7AS.

SCHEDULE 1 – see paragraph 2(a) above

RESIDENTS

BUSINESS

BUSINESS (continued) [Note: current all zones charges: 3 months (£220); 1st & 2nd annual (£390); and 3rd plus (£570)]

CHARITY [Note: current single zone charges: 1st & 2nd annual (£40); and 3rd plus (£172)]

SCHOOL 15 MINUTE

SCHOOL STAFF TERM TIME ONLY (40 WEEKS)

ESSENTIAL USERS [Note: (i) new category added for profit making organisations (Council partners, contractors, etc.); (essential users permits for Council staff are not being increased)

VISITORS [Notes: (i) current visitor permit system to be withdrawn and replaced as below; (ii) charges capped at 10 hours for longer duration cpz hours]

POOL (MULTIPLE VEHICLES)

ON-STREET

SCHEDULE 2 – see paragraph 3(b) above

OFF-STREET

*Subject to eligibility criteria