HL Deb 06 July 1993 vol 547 c51WA
Lord Kennet

asked Her Majesty's Government:

Whether they intend to limit car-parking in Hyde Park and if so when they expect to decide on and announce the areas and roads in which car-parking will be prohibited and those in which it will be regulated by meters or otherwise; and what consultations they have held with whom on their proposals.

Viscount Astor

Responsibility for the subject of the Question has been delegated to the Royal Parks Agency under its Chief Executive, Mr. David Welch. I have asked him to arrange for a reply to be given and I shall place a copy of his reply in the Library.

Letter from Mr. David Welch, Chief Executive of the Royal Parks, to Lord Kennet, dated 30 June 1993 and signed by Mr. Richard Boyce in the absence of the Chief Executive.

Viscount Astor has asked me to reply to your Written Parliamentary Question asking:

Whether the Government intend to limit car-parking in Hyde Park and if so when they expect to decide on and announce the areas and roads in which car-parking will be prohibited and those in which it will be regulated by meters or otherwise; and what consultations they have held with whom on their proposals.

Hyde Park is the responsibility of the Royal Parks Agency and we do not intend to limit car parking in Hyde Park. Following recommendations to improve parking for park users made by the Jenkins Review Group in their report on Hyde Park and Kensington Gardens, we asked traffic consultants to make proposals for new car parking arrangements in Hyde Park and Regent's Park.

Later this year we expect to be introducing a pay and display system of parking control which will benefit park users rather than the commuters who currently take up many of the available spaces. The intention is that parking will be permitted where it is now.

We shall shortly be consulting with interested parties including local authorities, the Crown Estate Paving Commission and London Zoo.