Received from Birmingham City Council 14th June 2021
We would like to update you on the progress of the University of Birmingham and QE Hospital parking management scheme. We have experienced number of issues with coronavirus restrictions as well as funding, which have now been successfully resolved but resulted in substantial delay in the delivery of the scheme.
The decision has been made to proceed to Full Business Case (FBC) stage with the shortlist of eight areas – 3D, 2C, 3C, 1B, 3A, 3B, 5 and 2B – as the priority areas.
The Full Business Case report has been approved and fully signed off on 26th of May 2021.
Following approval of the FBC, a formal consultation will be carried out with the general public, as part of the Traffic Regulation Order (TRO) process. We are currently writing the Traffic Regulation Orders to be advertised to the public.
The TRO advert is the stage of the statutory consultation on TROs when formal objections can be made and it lasts 21 days. We would like to advertise the TRO orders to the public throughout summer. Local residents will receive a letter, and everyone will be able to comment on the consultation online on BeHeard website.
We will advertise orders for each of the areas separately as we are aware that some of them may attract more objections than others and we would not like these to cause delay to implementation of areas where the consensus can be achieved more quickly. Delivery of the areas without significant public TRO objections is expected to be in the beginning of 2022, although we will expediate works where possible. It needs to be remembered that where there will be significant objections it may take more time to resolve them hence the delivery could be potentially delayed.