Objective/ policy and feedback from Sustrans
- To improve quality of life for residents, businesses and visitors, the strategy should prioritise active travel and tackling car dominance in the city. This aligns with many of Portsmouth City Council’s strategies including Portsmouth Transport Strategy 2021-2038 (LTP4), the Climate Emergency Strategy, Draft Greening Strategy and Delivery Plan, Health and Wellbeing Strategy Portsmouth City Council Capital Strategy and the draft Portsmouth Local Plan 2038. It is essential that the parking strategy fully reflects these priorities
- Sustrans supports the use of smart technologies and data, which can reduce emissions, congestion and time spent parking
- Consider a more inclusive description of kerbside uses, less focused on parked motor vehicles
- Kerbside can be reclaimed to encourage people to reduce car use and travel more sustainably by providing shared scooter and bike bays, electric vehicle charging points, cycle hangers and space for cargo bikes and electric delivery vehicles
- Extend the definition to include removal of parking spaces where appropriate, for all or part of the day. For example, to support active travel, improved accessibility for all, School Streets initiatives, play streets. socialising, markets and other pop-up events
- Resident Parking Zones can be effective ways to manage residents’ parking and congestion. However, they do not in themselves encourage active travel or reducing car use; such schemes should be implemented alongside ongoing sustainable travel schemes such as car clubs, micro-mobility, affordable and reliable public transport, and improved walking and cycling infrastructure
- Sustrans strongly supports this policy
- Need an extensive and accelerated rollout of secure bike hangars to clear the request backlog
- Car clubs are an effective way to reduce multiple vehicle ownership and reduce emissions
- Sustrans strongly supports the introduction of workplace parking levies to reduce car use
- See Nottingham’s successful implementation WPL-10-Year-Impact-Report-Digital-Nov-22.pdf (transportnottingham.com)
- Workplace parking levies are most successful when accompanied by engagement from behaviour change specialists who can support workplace and individual travel planning
- Work with Portsmouth Football Club to find a solution to match day traffic and congestion
- Take a similar approach to the WPL for Gunwharf Quays and the Dockyard e.g. better use of Park & Ride
- Reduce parking availability at the seafront to make space for safer cycling routes in alignment with the Seafront Masterplan
