Residents' Parking Permits - Sherwin St area update

Residents in the Sherwin St area have experienced a higher volume of university related parking this academic year than ever before to extent that daytime parking for any visitors/ workmen became quite tricky. Some students (and perhaps staff) would still be parked up of an evening as lectures carry on until 8/9pm.

They have held a consultation and the result has just come back - the turnout was apparently something like 90% and about 90% of the votes were for permits. I believe they will have permit scheme running ready for 2020/21 academic year. This is obviously well before Markeaton Island car park closes (due to the massive roadworks on A38) which will displace even more university related parking.

Cowley St area and Strutt’s Park also had public consultations as residents in those areas had been contacting council and police on parking matters. However although both areas had more saying they wanted permits than not, the number of returned forms was too low for the council to implement parking zones.

The last time there was a public consultation about parking permits, a smallish majority of Six Street residents were against them. The reasons given were that we didn’t get all that many students parking, that you had to park on the street you lived on and that the permits did not guarantee any resident a space when they came home of an evening.

However since then, things have changed - residents of the Sherwin Street area will be able to park anywhere in the zone, university now runs evening lectures so students take up spaces when residents get back from work, Markeaton Island car park is due to close for A38 roadworks and obviously now that Sherwin St area will be off limits earlyish in next academic year, those students will be looking for parking nearby.

Council has said it will be happy for Six Streets area residents to have their say in similar way as Sherwin Street area had ie residents deliver the forms that councils provide.

Information on current residential permit schemes

If you require more information, please contact the local councillors or the council neighbourhood officals as the above is as much as SIx Streets knows.