Maidenhead & Windsor

Three streets in Windsor will soon offer daytime pay and display parking once again, following local feedback on the Royal Borough's evolving parking strategy in the town centre.

From Monday June 2 Windsor resident permit holders, those with visitor vouchers and pay and display parkers will all be able to use:

* the south section of St Leonards Road
* part of Alma Road and
* the west section of Clarence Road.

These areas of the three streets have been identified as the least used by Windsor resident parking permit holders and their visitors and therefore can revert to shared use with pay and display parkers from 8am to 8pm daily. This change will give back more than 114 parking spaces for more general use in the town centre.

Following the borough's review of yellow lines earlier this year a number of Windsor town centre streets changed to offer parking only for their residents and visitors from 5.30pm to 8.30am Monday to Friday and throughout weekends. However, the council made it clear that it would monitor the situation and make amendments according to how the parking spaces were used over time.

Cllr Colin Rayner, lead member for Windsor and Maidenhead highways, transport and environment, explained: "The council's parking strategy for Windsor has been evolving over the past few months and we are listening carefully to the views of local people, businesses, churches and publicans.

"The changes introduced in March were designed to provide more parking for town centre residents close to their own homes – but now that the parking pattern has settled down we can see there are opportunities for restoring pay and display to streets at times when their residents don't use them to the full potential. It has been obvious for some time that these three streets could return to the old parking system and residents from the wider Windsor area have told us they would very much welcome the return of pay and display to make parking much easier for them when they come into the town centre.

"Restoring pay and display from 8am to 8pm every day also means additional benefits for all borough residents who have yellow Advantage Cards because they get the first tariff period absolutely free."

Cllr Rayner said that further adjustments to the parking arrangements may be made in the future as the council responded to constructive feedback from local people. Work was also continuing with local businesses to develop ways of allowing their car parks to be used for the public in the evenings and at weekends.

Formal notices advertising the parking changes has been placed in the local press this week and they will start on Monday June 2.

The Royal Borough of Windsor and Maidenhead