Agenda item

Report of the Superintendent, Smithfield Market

The Committee considered a report of the Director of Markets & Consumer Protection requesting concessionary parking at Smithfield Market over the Christmas season.

Members noted that Officers were recommending Option B - 9 days/nights of concessions rather than concessions for the whole of December which had been requested by the Smithfield Market Tenants’ Association (SMTA). 

Members accepted the justification put forward by officers that Option B would allow concessionary rates during the busiest pre-Christmas trading period whilst supporting implementation of the Traffic Management Plan to improve traffic flow around the Market and associated arterial roads.  The reduced period of concessionary parking would also go some way to off-setting the cost of additional traffic management measures over the concessionary period.

RESOLVED – That concessionary parking from 9pm on Sunday 15 December until 10am on Tuesday 24 December 2019 (9 days/nights) be agreed.