More free parking at Red Houses?

Monday 03 August 2015

Transport and Technical Services is asking for comments on proposals to establish one hour free parking on the upper level of the Red Houses car park.

The upper level has 47 spaces and is currently a paycard car park. TTS has been approached by Waitrose who would like to lease spaces and release these spaces to the public as free one hour disc parking. The spaces would not be used by Waitrose staff.

In the proposal, TTS would retain seven spaces in this area for all day and season ticket parking and the remaining 40 spaces would be turned over to Waitrose. Recent research has shown that there are only about two vehicles that stay all day and that the upper level of the car park is on average only 15% full.

The policing, enforcement and administration would still be carried out by TTS.

The Co-op currently leases the lower level of the car park and releases these spaces for free one hour disc parking in a similar way to the Waitrose proposal.

Full information is available on www.gov.je/consult for anyone wishing to comment during the consultation period which closes on Friday 28 August.

Also, as part of the agreement Waitrose has agreed to provide disabled access improvements to the car park as well as road crossing improvements in Route Orange which is subject to a planning application and any comments on this should be addressed through the planning application process.