Hay-on-Wye Resident’s Parking Proposals
January 2013 (second revision 20th February 2013)
These proposals are the result of months of
discussion and consultation with residents, traders and visitors to
Hay-on-Wye. They enjoy the support of
Hay Town Council and have been designed to meet residents’ desires for simple
to understand, practical and affordable car parking close to their homes whilst
addressing the legitimate needs of the town’s traders to provide adequate
on-street car parking for visitors and shoppers.
These proposals are designed to be cost
neutral, limiting expenditure through taking advantage as far as possible of
existing signage and road markings whilst increasing revenue through
encouraging greater use of existing Pay and Display car parks, sale of
Residents’ and Visitors’ Parking Permits and the creation of greater future
income through the provision of a new 48 vehicle capacity Pay and Display Car
Park on the Cattle Market Car Park site.
It is hoped that these proposals can be
used by other communities throughout Powys as a basis for adaptation to meet
their own particular circumstances and parking needs.
It
is proposed that the town be divided into the following zones or areas.
RED ZONE (ZONE 1.) MAIN RETAIL & COMMERCIAL AREA
There will be no special dispensation for
residents’ parking within the Red Zone outside designated Residents’ Only Parking
Zones (RPZs)
Parking in Zone 1 will be restricted to:
- Pay & Display Car Park in Market Square to include two (2) new
spaces outside HSBC Bank
- Disabled Parking in defined bays in Castle Street.
- One (1) hour time limited RPZs as
shown on plans. Restrictions applicable between 8:00am and 6:00pm Monday
to Saturday except RPZs in Lion Street above Clock
Tower (1.); Lion Street,
outside Hay Deli (2.) and Bull Ring outside the Royal British Legion Club
(6.) where overnight parking might cause problems i.e.
- Designated Residents Only RPZs as shown on plans. Parking restricted to vehicles
displaying a current Residents’ Parking Permit 24 hours per day 7 days per
week.
No parking will be allowed in RPZs or Pay
and Display Car Park in Market
Square and Clock Tower area to allow for market
operations on Thursdays and authorised ‘special events’.
PROPOSED
NEW & ALTERED RPZs WITHIN Red Zone (Zone 1.)
- It is proposed that two (2) new 30 Minute Parking Bays are
created at the top (South) of the Clock Tower area of Lion Street where the street is
sufficiently wide before narrowing beside CommuniKate and Booth’s Book
Shop. It
is proposed this RPZ will be enforceable 24 hours to prohibit overnight
parking which might interfere with large vehicle essential early morning
deliveries.
- An RPZ allowing two (2) new One Hour
parking bays will be created in Lion
street, approximately outside Hay Deli. This RPZ, positioned in the widest part
of that section of Lion
Street, will formalise what is common parking
practice, permit larger vehicles to turn right on entering from High Town yet leave space for trade vehicles
servicing shops in the street. It is proposed this RPZ will be enforceable 24 hours to
prohibit overnight parking which might interfere with Post Office
deliveries/collections and large vehicle essential early morning
deliveries.
- Existing 30 minute RPZ in Castle Street will be extended to
allow One Hour parking.
- The Western end of the existing One Hour RPZ (presently a 30
minute RPZ) in Castle Street
will be extended towards the junction with Belmont Road to create one (1) additional
One Hour parking bay without causing any interference to traffic flow.
- Two (2) new parking bays will be created in Market Square, immediately outside the
HSBC Bank. These bays will be
incorporated into the Market Square Pay and Display car park and the same
conditions governing the car park will apply. These spaces will be suspended for
market operations.
- An RPZ allowing two (2) new One Hour parking bays will be
created in the Bull Ring outside the Royal British Legion Club building
close to its junction with Market
Street.
This RPZ, positioned in the part of the Bull Ring where there is
currently no pavement, will formalise what is common parking practice, and
not interfere unduly with traffic flow.
It is proposed this RPZ will be
enforceable 24 hours to prohibit overnight parking which might interfere
with large vehicle essential early morning deliveries.
- The present unregulated parking area under the castle wall at the
junction of Castle Street and The Bull Ring will be designated a dedicated
Residents’ Only RPZ providing three (3) new spaces.
- A new dedicated Residents’ Only RPZ providing Four (4) parking
spaces will be created in the unregulated area in Chancery Lane immediately
East of the building cornering Broad Street, (Gabb’s Solicitors) to the
entrance to the private car parking area behind Booth’s Bookshop, opposite
and West of the library car park, providing four (4) new spaces.
- A new dedicated Residents’ RPZ will be created in Chancery Lane, East
of its junction with Brook
Street running to the bollard restricting
street width outside ‘Owl Cottage’.
The propose RPZ will continue South from that point along the
adopted but unregulated lane to the rear of ‘The Old Forge’ to its junction
with Lion Street, where it will cross to include the lane opposite and end
at the point where that lane narrows and turns West to emerge beside the
Kilvert Arms. This will not
restrict any through traffic flow, formalise what is common parking
practice and provide useful regulated parking for the numerous small
residences in the area.
Other existing RPZs within the Red Zone (Zone
1.) will remain unchanged other than that all restrictions excepting dedicated
Residents Only RPZs will operate Monday to Saturday, from 8:00am to 6:00pm and
determine No Return within 2 Hours. (see
under PARKING RESTRICTIONS AND SIGNAGE)
See
attached plans for locations and conditions applying to existing and proposed
RPZs.
GREEN ZONE (ZONE 2.) STREETS ADJACENT TO MAIN RETAIL AREA
This area is defined as being from
Heol-y-Dwr in the East to Oxford Road
in the South to Broad
Street/Belmont Road to the North and Church Street to
the West.
Vehicles displaying a current and valid
Residents’ parking Permit must adhere to the following conditions when parking
in the Green Zone (Zone 2).
- Vehicles displaying a current and valid Residents’ parking
Permit are permitted unrestricted parking in designated Residents’ Only RPZs
within the Green Zone (Zone 2) as shown on plans.
- Vehicles displaying a current and valid Residents’ parking
Permit are permitted unrestricted parking in 1 Hour and 2 Hour RPZs as
shown on plans. Restrictions are applicable
to all other vehicles which must be parked in accordance with displayed
time limitations.
- All vehicles including those displaying a current and valid
Residents’ parking Permit must adhere to stated time limitations in
designated 30 Minute RPZs.
PROPOSED
NEW & ALTERED RPZs WITHIN Green Zone (Zone 2.)
- An RPZ will be created by formalising the existing unregulated
bays outside the Council Offices below (North of) the Clock Tower, providing
four (4) 1 hour parking bays, suspended on Thursdays for market
operations. Powys CC to advise on how signage and/or road markings can prevent
prevalent double rank parking.
- The East side of Heol-y-Dwr for approximately 20 metres length opposite
the junction of Brook Street and Heol-y-Dwr, will be designated a No
Waiting At Any Time, No Loading area to facilitate large vehicles exiting
Brook Street into Heol-y-Dwr.
- The North side of Heol-y-Dwr from approximately opposite the vehicular
entrance to Poplar House, except for the 20 metre No Waiting At Any Time,
No Loading area referred to above, to the entrance to Booth Gardens will
be designated a 2 Hour RPZ. The pedestrian entrance to properties in The
Gardens should be protected from obstruction by parked vehicles with an
‘H’ bar painted on the road surface.
- The unregulated parking area on the West side Heol-y-Dwr from outside
Chancery Court to approximately opposite 5 Albert Terrace, will be
designated a 2 Hour RPZ.
- The unregulated parking area in Lion Street, from opposite the
Parish Hall to the road width restriction close to its junction with
Heol-y-Dwr, excepting that area outside the Constitutional Club will be
designated a 1 Hour RPZ. The
Westernmost end of that RPZ outside Nos. 8 to 10 Chancery Lane will be marked single
row, side by side parking, the balance parallel parking as at present.
- The unregulated parking area in Lion Street, at the junction
with Bear Street, outside ‘The Blacksmiths’ will be designated a 2 Hour
RPZ providing three (3) parking bays.
The RPZ to the North of the ‘H’ bar outside the pedestrian entrance
to ‘The Blacksmiths’ should be enlarged to permit (1) one vehicle parking
bay in addition to the remaining space allowing two (2) bays South of the
‘H’ bar.
- An RPZ allowing four (4) new 1 Hour parking bays will be
created in Lion Street
outside The Drill Hall. This RPZ,
positioned in the widest part of that section of Lion Street, will formalise what is
common parking practice. It will allow
adequate vision for vehicles exiting Gittins Garage and be clear of the
junction of Lion Street
and Oxford Road.
- An RPZ allowing three (3) new 30 minute parking bays will be
created in Oxford Road
immediately opposite the National Westminster Bank outside, but not
obscuring the entrance to ‘Cae Mawr’.
This will provide very useful short term parking space particularly
for users of the bank’s ATM and will formalise what is current common
parking practice. This new RPZ will have the effect of creating a traffic
restricting ‘chicane’ which will help moderate sometimes excessive traffic
speeds in Oxford Road.
- The current RPZ on the South side of Church Street, outside the
Cinema Bookshop will be shortened by approximately 2 metres at its West end
to create a 2 Hour RPZ providing three (3) parking spaces. This RPZ has the effect of creating a
traffic restricting ‘chicane’ which whilst causing occasional
inconvenience to some motorists, does help moderate sometimes excessive
traffic speeds in Church
Street.
- Powys County Council will not be responsible for enforcing any
restrictions in unadopted Roads and cul-de-sacs within the Green Zone (Zone
2). Owners will operate their own
restrictions and be responsible for controlling them.
- All adopted and presently undesignated roads in the Green Zone
(Zone 2) will become designated Residents Only RPZs. (de Breos Court, Carlsgate etc.)
All RPZs within the Green Zone (Zone 2) excepting
30 Minute RPZs will be operative Monday to Saturday from 8:00am to 6:00pm and
determine No Return for 2 hours. (see
under PARKING RESTRICTIONS AND SIGNAGE)
See
attached plans for locations of existing and proposed RPZs.
ZONE 3. DESIGNATED
OFF-ROAD PARKING AREAS
Current designated Off-Road car parking is provided
by the Oxford Road Pay and Display car park.
This is frequently unable to meet demand
from visitors to Hay, particularly in summer months, on market days, Bank
Holidays and when special events are taking place in the town. Additional off-road car parking is urgently
required.
It is therefore recommended that that the possibility
of using all or part of the current vehicle parking (non-livestock) section of
the cattle market, should be examined as a practical answer to the problem of
lack of visitor and residents’ parking.
The lease on the Cattle Market is due for imminent
renewal in March 2013 and it is vital that Powys County Council negotiate any
granting or renewal of the new lease to allow for use of part of the site as a
mix of Pay and Display and dedicated Residents’ Only parking to meet the needs
of residents living in Church Street and the immediate locality .
It is extremely important that any area
provided for parking in the cattle market is isolated from the important Motte
and Bailey earthworks which might be incorporated to become an attractive
feature of the site.
It is considered that a longer term answer
might be a car park established on the parcel of land immediately to the North
of Hay Bridge, to the East of the B4351 opposite ‘The Start’.
The site is unobtrusive and effectively
obscured from general view by the brow of the hill to the North and to the
South by mature trees growing on the Radnorshire bank of the river. This site is as close to the Clock Tower as
the current Oxford Road Car Park and would usefully service businesses and
residents in that part of the town. It is believed that development of a car park
on this site will have a beneficial effect on and contribute to the resurgence
of commerce in the Northern part of Hay town centre.
Powys County Council should give urgent
attention to earmarking this site for use as a future car park and Clyro Community
Council kept informed of any planned development.
PARKING RESTRICTIONS & SIGNAGE
Parking
restrictions in Hay-on-Wye should be limited to the following:
No
Parking Areas
1. Double yellow lines - No Parking at any time with certain
exceptions for loading and unloading etc.
2. Double yellow lines + No Loading sign – No parking at any time
other than for emergency vehicles.
Pay
and Display Parking
For the benefit of longer term visitors and
to obviate the necessity of an early visit to the car park to ‘feed’ the meter,
the Pay and Display machines in the Oxford Road Car Park should be updated to
allow tickets to be issued for up to 5 days in multiples of 24 hour periods.
In the shorter term until the introduction
of new machines or updating of existing machines, signs should indicate that
tickets for longer term parking are available from various local outlets
including Hay Tourist Office and the proposed Hay Together Hay Castle Office.
If the proposal to convert part of the
Cattle Market vehicle park into additional parking when the market is not in
use, this could provide much needed additional Pay and Display visitor parking.
(see DESIGNATED OFF-ROAD PARKING
above)
Disabled
Parking Bays
Parking restricted to vehicles displaying valid
Disabled badge. Vehicles displaying
valid Disabled badges will also have the right to park in any One or Two Hour
RPZs in both Zones 1 and 2 in Hay for a period of up to Three Hours.
Residents
Only Parking
Operative 7 days a week, 24 hours per day.
Time
Restricted Parking Zones
All signs will display a coloured square or
strip - Red for Red Zone (Zone 1) and Green for Green Zone (Zone 2) to indicate
within which zone the sign is situated.
There will be no special dispensation for
residents’ vehicles parking within the Red Zone (Zone 1) outside designated
Residents’ Only RPZs
There will be no special dispensation for
residents’ vehicles parking in 30 Minute RPZs where parking restrictions will
apply to all vehicles at all times.
Parking in One and Two Hour Time RPZs is
limited to cars and vans; no trailers, vehicles weighing over 2.5 tons or HGVs are
permitted.
Time Restricted Parking Zones (RPZs) as
shown on plan will be:
1. 7
days a week
All times
30 minutes Parking,
No return within 2 hours
2. Monday
to Saturday
8:00am –
6:00pm
1 Hour Parking,
No return within 2 hours
3. Monday
to Saturday
8:00am – 6:00pm
2 Hours Parking
No return within
2 hours
Some RPZs in town centre will be suspended
for regular market operations
Some designated RPZs will use defined
marked parking bays to prevent misuse, dangerous and inconsiderate parking.
PARKING PERMITS
Powys
Parking Permit
Cost: 12 months - £150.00 6 months - £80.00 3 months - £40.00
Currently obtainable from Powys County Council and displaying to and
from validation date and
vehicle registration number.
- Entitles vehicle displaying valid permit to park in certain
Powys council’s long term car parks.
Residents’
Parking Permit
Limited to vehicles registered to a
qualifying address, subject to proof of residence. Permit to be surrendered if vehicle sold or relocates.
- A Residents’ Parking Permit is valid only within Hay-on-Wye.
- A Residents’ Parking Permit is only valid for the period
recorded and for the vehicle bearing the registration number marked on the
Permit.
- Ownership or display of a Residents’ Parking Permit does not
guarantee a parking place.
- Residents are forbidden from placing cones or barriers in the
road to reserve a parking place without specific authorisation.
- Vehicles must be parked within defined Parking Bays where
marked.
- Ownership or display of a Residents’ Parking Permit does
obviate compliance with time parking restrictions within Zone 1. or in 30
minute Restricted Parking Zones.
Residents’ Parking Permits will be issued
for a period of 12 months and limited to a maximum of two Permits per residence
(unit of occupation liable for council tax) in Hay-on-Wye.
Cost:
1 Permit - £52.00 2nd Permit - £78.00
Residents’ Parking Permits will be obtainable
from Powys County Council, Hay Public Library and from various local outlets
including Hay Tourist Office and the proposed Hay Together Hay Castle Office.
Residents’ Parking Permits will display to
and from validation date and vehicle registration number.
Vehicles displaying a current and valid Residents’
Parking Permits are entitled to park for any period in any Residents Only RPZ
in Hay or any 1 or 2 Hour RPZ outside Zone 1.
Changes
and Refunds
Should any owner of a Residents’ Parking
Permit change the registered vehicle, the old Permit must be surrendered and a
new Permit will be issued with the new vehicle details and registration number.
Should a Permit no longer be required it
may be surrendered and a refund issued amounti ng to the unexpired period
remaining on the Permit.
Surrender
Refunds
Permits with up to 9 months remaining – 75%
of fee (£39.00)
Permits with up to 6 months remaining – 50%
of fee (£26.00)
Permits with up to 3 months remaining – 25%
of fee (£13.00)
Charges
Made for Changes
All changes and refunds made to Residents’
Parking Permits will be liable to a £10.00 administration fee.
Special
Dispensation Parking Permit (SD)
Cost: 12 months £ NIL
Obtainable from Powys County Council only and
displaying to and from validation date and vehicle registration number. Designed for use by essential
workers/services, doctors, nurses, health visitors etc. To be displayed only when on call.
Allows vehicle to park in any Residents
Only or One or Two Hour Time RPZ within Hay-on-Wye outside Zone 1. for a
maximum of two hours.
Hay-on-Wye
Temporary (visitors) Parking Permit (TP)
It is proposed that ONE DAY Temporary
Parking Permit sheets are printed in booklets of five or ten parking
‘occasions’ and available at a cost of £4.00 each. This cost is set significantly higher than
the cost of parking ‘all day’ in Oxford Road Car Park in order to try to
maximise use of the car park for longer term parking.
Each Permit will permit parking for the
displayed period in any 1 or 2 Hour RPZ within the Green Zone (Zone 2) for
visitors and trade users and will be displayed inside window on the driver’s
side for ease of reading.
Temporary Parking Permits will record for
each parking ‘occasion’, the day, date and start time and the registration
number of the vehicle. The permit will
necessitate the required information is recorded in ink and that once used,
each used permit is ‘spoiled’ by tearing off or folding back an indicated ‘tab’
to prohibit re-use. Please see example attached
to this report.
It is suggested that Temporary (Visitor) Parking
Permits are validated at point of sale with an embossed stamp to prevent the
use of forged Permits.
Temporary (Visitor) Parking Permits will be
available to all, whether residents of Hay-on-Wye or not and will be obtainable
from Powys County Council, Hay Public Library and from various local outlets
including Hay Tourist Office and the proposed Hay Together Hay Castle Office. The use of Temporary (Visitor) Parking
Permits should limit Temporary On-Street Parking Dispensation Certificate
applications made to Powys County Council and will produce significant income
over time.
Temporary
On-Street Parking Dispensation Certificate.
Available only from the County Council Parking
Authority and necessitating a three working day application period. For the situating of a builder’s skip or for
the use of traders working in the street or at adjacent properties to apply for
the short-term, non emergency use of a vehicle in contravention of the
on-street restrictions.
Dispensations are to be charged for and
provided at the Parking Authority’s discretion. Applications will only be approved where road
safety and traffic management is not compromised.
Pedestrian
Crossings
There is an established need and much
repeated request for the installation of a pedestrian crossing in Broad Street
approximately between Jones Hardware and the Blue Boar. It is proposed that Powys County Council
conduct a feasibility study into the practicality of installing a pedestrian
crossing at this location.
INTRODUCTORY SCHEME
It is suggested that Hay-on-Wye Parking
proposals are publicised widely to the local community and an introductory two
week scheme be undertaken when parking in the town will be closely monitored
and tickets issued to offending vehicles.
For this two week introductory period, these tickets will be a ‘Warning
Only’ but for maximum impact, will be designed, and fixed to offending vehicles
to closely resemble the issuing of normal Penalty Notices.
Additional Car Parking Spaces provided by
proposals
1 new 1 Hour bay in Castle Street close to junction with Belmont Road
2 new 1 Hour bays in Lion Street before junction with Brook Street
2 new 1 Hour bays in Bell Bank outside Club
4 new 1 Hour bays in Lion Street outside Drill Hall
2 new 30 Minute bays in Lion Street by Clock Tower
2 new 30 minute bays in Oxford Road opposite Nat West Bank
2 new Pay and Display spaces in Market Square
outside HSBC Bank
Plus:
Potential 12 (plus) new Residents’ spaces
in Cattle Market car park
Potential 36 (plus) new visitors’ spaces in
Cattle Market
Current
unregulated Car Parking spaces to be regulated by proposals
Four (4) 1 hour parking bays below (North
of) the Clock Tower
Three (3) 1 hour parking bays in Lion Street outside
‘The Blacksmiths’
Three (3) Residents’ Only bays at junction
of Castle Street
and The Bull Ring
1 hour RPZ in Heol-y-Dwr opposite Brook Street
1 hour RPZ in Heol-y-Dwr outside Chancery
Court
1 hour RPZ in Lion Street opposite Parish Hall
1 hour RPZ in Lion Street before junction with
Heol-y-Dwr
Four (4) Residents’ Only bays in Chancery Lane
outside Gabbs Solicitors
Residents’ RPZ in Chancery Lane East of Brook Street
Residents’ RPZ in lane from Chancery Lane to
the Kilvert Arms
Residents’ Only RPZs in Adopted cul-de-sacs
and closes
