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Professor Davies will be a Student of Christ Church.
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Professor McCarthy will be a fellow of Green College.
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Off-peak: £10
Peak-time:
£10 for staff earning
£10,000 or less
£20 for staff earning £10,001–£20,000
£30 for staff earning £20,001–£30,000
£40 for staff earning £30,001 or more
Disabled: no charge
A full version of the University's Car Parking Regulations and relevant annexes are provided below, and can also be found at the Web site http://www.admin.ox.ac.uk/travel.shtml.
6.2 Three types of permit are available to university staff: peak-time permits, off-peak permits and temporary permits. All applications for permits will be assessed by departments.
6.3 Peak-time and off-peak permits are issued by Security Services, in response to instructions from departments. Temporary permits are issued by departments.
6.4 Peak-time and off-peak permits are `permits-to-hunt': the holder is not guaranteed a parking space.
6.5 Ordinarily students are not eligible for university parking permits. Students living further than six miles from Carfax may, if suffering exceptional problems traveling into Oxford, apply for exemption from the eligibility rule.
6.7 The total number of peak-time permits issued will be limited and will be proportional to the number of non- departmental spaces available. Peak-time permits will be divided between departments: the number allocated will relate to the number of staff on their payroll.
6.8 Peak-time permits will be issued on the basis of greatest need, as assessed on a departmental level against the criteria set out below. Applications should be made on a standard form and submitted according to arrangements devised within each department.
6.9 Heads of department are responsible for assessing applications, using their own judgment in applying the criteria as appropriate to their department, and for authorising the issue of peak-time permits to their staff up to their maximum allocation.
6.10 Heads of department are required to publish details of any variation they make in the application of the criteria for assessment in the appendix and to indicate, anonymously, the circumstances which justify the issue of each permit (for example, by posting a list in the department).
6.11 Permits will expire on 31 December and renewal must be on the basis of repeat application. Heads of department may, if they wish, specify an earlier expiry date.
6.13 All other applications from staff (or graduate students who are also applying for exemption from ineligibility) should be assessed against the following criteria:
(a) Other Disability. A need to park close to the place of work due to a medical or physical condition which does not qualify the applicant for a blue badge. (Staff with temporary mobility problems should be granted a peak-time permit, or use of a departmental space as appropriate, for the duration of their disability.)
(b) Operational requirements. A requirement to use a car on a regular and frequent basis during the working day in order to fulfill contractual duties.
(c) Family commitments. A need to attend to dependent family members during the day (e.g. taking/collecting children to/from nursery or school, visiting elderly or hospitalised family members) in areas not immediately accessible by public transport.
(d) Unsocial hours of work. A requirement to work unsocial hours on a regular and frequent basis, finishing and/or starting at a time when public transport provision is less adequate than during the standard working day.
(e) Inadequate public transport. Applicable to staff who reside beyond a distance where they could reasonably be expected to walk or cycle to work, in areas beyond reasonable reach of public transport.[1] [Staff applying on this basis should note why they need to drive into Oxford rather than use the Park and Ride.]
6.14 Regard should be given to the availability to the applicant (or perhaps their spouse) of alternative parking facilities in Oxford: those with ready access to a non-university parking space in Oxford are unlikely to need a peak-time permit.
6.15 The relative status of the applicants within the department should not be a factor in the assessment process.
6.18 Temporary permits are valid only in the designated spaces allocated to the issuing department, on the date specified on the permit. The number of temporary permits is for the department to decide. Provision is also made for departments to state the times between which the permit is valid.
6.21 No person will park a motor vehicle on a section of a car park, or roadway marked with either a continuous, wide, single yellow line, denoting an emergency services access route, or a system of continuous double yellow lines. The continuous double yellow line system on university-controlled car parks and roadways means that parking is prohibited at any time. Vehicles parked in the above circumstances will be subject to immediate removal, the costs to be borne by the driver/person in charge.
6.22 Departments will be responsible for controlling the use of any spaces allocated to them.
The member of staff would be issued with a university parking permit in addition to a space. For a car to be legally parked in a disabled space both a current Blue/Orange Badge and a university parking permit would have to be clearly visible in the windscreen. The space and permit together would represent only one departmental allocation.
Applications for disabled parking facilities should be returned to Security Services as usual for issue of the peak- time permit. However, departments should also contact their building surveyor in the Surveyor's Department to arrange for a space to be marked out and a sign provided.
Applicants who are eligible for a Blue Badge, but do not hold one, would be required to apply for a Blue Badge in order to qualify for a space. In the meantime, a peak-time permit should be issued or, at the discretion of the department, a departmental space made available for use.
The requirement of holding a badge under the Blue (formerly Orange) Badge scheme was felt to be the most equitable and appropriate criterion to apply to the allocation of spaces for disabled staff. It is an internationally- recognised scheme for the assessment of mobility impairments in the context of car parking requirements and is consistently applied across the country by experienced assessors who are independent of the University.
Temporary mobility impairments: Staff suffering from temporary conditions affecting their mobility (e.g. broken leg, recovering from recent operation) should be enabled to drive to work for the duration of the impairment. It is envisaged that, in general, these will be staff who have been declared fit for work, but who are unable to use public transport or a bicycle with ease. It is expected that this would be best dealt with by issue of a temporary permit for use in a departmental space. For departments without departmental spaces an application for a temporary (if necessary, additional) peak-time permit should be submitted.
Other medical conditions: Staff with any other medical or physical conditions that make it difficult for them to use public transport or a bicycle should continue to be accorded a high priority for a permit.
1. Parking is only permitted in designated parking spaces. The permit issued to you gives permission to park one vehicle listed on the permit but implies no undertaking that a space will be available.
2. Permits are normally valid for the calendar year. Applications for replacement permits must be made to the Departmental Administrator or Secretary before the end of the current year in accordance with instructions issued by the University Security Services.
3. Any change of registration number must be notified to the Departmental Administrator or Secretary, who should apply to the University Security Services for an amended permit. The old permit must accompany the application. Where the old permit has been lost or accidentally destroyed, a brief statement of the circumstances is to be made on the application form.
4. Only one permit per authorised holder will be issued. Permit holders wishing to use more than one vehicle must inform the Departmental Administrator or Secretary and must have the registration numbers of the vehicles entered on the permit. The permits should be kept in a transparent plastic holder or envelope and displayed so that the registration number is clearly visible through the windscreen of the vehicle in use.
5. Permits should be displayed in a manner that does not obstruct the driver's view of the road.
6. All vehicles are parked at the owner's risk.
7. The fees chargeable for the release of a wheel clamp are set by the Building and Estates Sub-committee and may be altered from time to time. The current fees are listed below.
8. Vehicles parked in the University Parking Areas and not displaying a valid permit will be treated as trespassing and will be liable to be clamped. (The fee for the release of the clamp is £40 or £1.50 for each hour after the clamp was applied, whichever is the greater.)
9. Vehicles parked on double yellow lines will be liable to be clamped. (The fee for the release of the clamp is £40 or £1.50 for each hour after the clamp was applied, whichever is the greater.)
10. Vehicles parked on pavements or on grassed areas without the express permission of the University Security Services will be liable to be clamped. (The fee for the release of the clamp is £40 or £1.50 for each hour after the clamp was applied, whichever is the greater.) 11. Vehicles parked in fire lanes designated by broad yellow lines or obstructing emergency exits marked with a sign or yellow cross hatching will be liable to be towed away to a designated space in the Science Area between the Clarendon Laboratory and the Department of Earth Sciences and will then be clamped. (The fee for the release of a vehicle that has been towed away is £100 and the storage charge is £10 per day.) 12. Permits may be withdrawn at the discretion of the University Marshal. 13. These conditions may be varied from time to time at the discretion of the Building and Estates Sub-committee. [1] Reasonable public transport provision is defined as follows: a total journey time not in excess of forty-five minutes each way including walking time.
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Participants will be required to commit themselves to a total of ninety contact hours over the twelve weeks, involving one-and-a-half hours a day, five days a week. The classes will take place at 5 p.m. every weekday at the Institute for Chinese Studies, Walton Street. Cantonese-speaking members of the University who wish to learn Mandarin are welcome to participate in the project. Numbers will be limited to fifteen participants.
Those interested should contact Mr Shio-yun Kan at the Centre for Teaching Chinese as a Foreign Language, Institute for Chinese Studies, Walton Street, Oxford OX1 2HG (telephone: Oxford (2)80393/(2)80387, e-mail: kan@server.orient.ox.ac.uk).
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