Paper Petition

Paper petition details

the 24 hour operation of Cliff Road car park is a nuisance

We the undersigned, request that the car park is not used between 11pm and 7am every day

Planning Permission was assumed for Cliff Road car park and the hours were limited to 7am - 11pm each day. Access control was required to stop use between 11pm and 7am - no access control has been provided. Furthermore, tree planters and hedges behind the railings are specified and have not been installed.

Started by: Gary McMahon

On reaching 1 signatures the head of the relevant department will be made aware of the matter.

This Paper petition was received on 26/06/2018.

24 people signed this Paper petition.

Council response

06 June 2018

Dear Mr McMahon,

SUBMISSION OF A PETITION – (24 hour operation of car park on Cliff Road)

Thank you for your petition which has been received by Constitutional Services.

Your petition has been forwarded to the Corporate Director of Development and Growth and will now be investigated. You should receive a response within 12 working days.

If you would like any further information or have any queries please feel free to contact Constitutional Services on 0115 8764305.

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22 June 2018

Dear Mr McMahon,

SUBMISSION OF A PETITION – (24 hour operation of car park on Cliff Road)

Further to my letter dated 6 June 2018, please find enclosed a response from Councillor Jane Urquhart, Portfolio Holder for Planning and Housing. This response will be published on the petitions section of the Nottingham City Council website shortly.

"Thank you for the petition concerning the 24 hour use of the car park off Cliff Road.
The planning history of the site has been reviewed. As you are aware a car park at this location was approved as part of the Galleries of Justice development in 1993. There were a number of conditions attached to the 1993 decision note relating to the car park which required a range of details to be submitted to the Council prior to the car park being created. It is understood that work on the car park started in the spring of 1996 and that at this time car parking at the site began, though it was not until 2000 that an application was received by Council containing some of the detail required by the pre-start conditions of the 1993 permission.
As only some of the conditions relating to the 1993 permission were approved under the application received in 2000, it is unclear whether the car park off Cliff Road is authorised by the 1993 permission and, therefore, whether the condition that you refer to in the petition (that restricts the hours for vehicles entering and exiting the site to between 7am and 11pm) is enforceable.
The car park appears to have been used from 1996, for a period of at least 22 years. In planning terms a use becomes authorised and immune from enforcement action after a 10 year period, as is therefore the case in this instance.
Whilst the aforementioned condition restricting hours for vehicles to access and egress the car park may not be enforceable, we will approach the car park operator drawing this matter to their attention and seek their agreement for it to be complied with. Jenny Cole from the Planning team will keep you updated on this matter in due course.
I hope that this response helpfully explains the position regarding the issue raised within the petition."