Petition details
Residential Permits for all Electric Cars Drivers
This petition calls upon Tower Hamlet to follow the precedent sent by other councils such as Hackney and Westminster and to offer residential parking to low emission electric cars. On street parking permits, should be extend to those in Car Free Developments, also.
https://www.westminster.gov.uk/applying-resident-parking-permit-first-time
This Petition ran from 28/08/2019 to 20/11/2019 and has now finished.
46 people signed this Petition.
Council response
Thank you for the petition raised for Council on 13 November 2019 regarding the above which you presented to the meeting.
I understand that you would like the council to support the use of low emission vehicles and to provide residential parking permits to all electric car drivers. You also stated in your petition that the council should support drivers in reducing air pollution; and as such an exception should be given to electric vehicle drivers including those on a car-free developments.
It is already a council policy to promote the use of low emission vehicles over other more polluting fuel types.
We are planning to confirm our aspirations to reduce overall car use in the Borough; this will be driven by our new Transport Strategy, to be considered by Cabinet in December 2019.
Discounted rates are already offered on permits for fully electric vehicles, the fee represents only the cost of administrating the permit. A levy on permits for higher emission, diesel vehicles, came into effect in October 2019.
From April 2020, we are considering high emission levy on ‘paid for parking’, commonly known as ‘pay and display’. This will be considered through the annual Fees & Charges Review, to be considered by Cabinet in early 2020.
Given the aspirations as outlined above, we are unable to support activity which would promote the use of vehicles by residents who have already committed to not having a vehicle which needs a resident parking permit, through the ‘car free development’ arrangements.
Ann Sutcliffe
Corporate Director, Place