| Topic: | Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Another fancy pants scheme? | |
| Posted by: | Raymond Havelock | |
| Date/Time: | 14/12/16 20:04:00 |
| You have answered your own question. If not enough Permits are sold then the problem is solved in that the problem was being caused by non residents, commuters or people from developments built with out parking. They are imperfect but do make life easier especially in cramped areas. But using the cost as a took fro prising money out of ordinary residents on ordinary incomes and inferring that they may be wealthier than others is obscene. All residents over 75 in a CPZ ought to have free permits and certainly free a free visitors permit. It actually costs nothing. Because it is artificial. In fact some CPZs have more permit holders than spaces. In BRS after the ban it is still difficult to find a space late at might. But a closer look walking a few streets home and pretty much every vehicle has a permit. In other areas where there is an abundance of off street parking then it is a different story. But the problem may well be commuters or long term parkers who use the airport of commute into London and leave the car where they can and stay in flats nearer town. I have several colleagues who do this and leave cars in Northolt and live in flats around Paddington and Shepherds Bush for the week. As for values on property. Estate Agents are masters at turning negatives into positives and laying it on thick. If you read my remarks, I mentioned that the insatiable demand negated and negativity. But in Bromsgrove, Chester, parts of Bristol and some outer suburbs this has been and is a problem knocking back values of properties in similar streets and demographics I was in Wolverton today and this is a big issue with a parking restrictions in two roads having put a big dent in house values and a premium in others. All because the station is nearby. But residents had a free permit system for nearly 30 years. There is loads of S106 money and it's not been used very well. Not that it's made very open to local input, and apparently overseen by the cabinet portfolio holder for public engagement. The same as street cleaning. What ever happened to residents sweeping their own path and pavement and gutter outside their homes? When I was younger it was a mix of grandparents, or one of our chores to do every week. Most ( but not all ) neighbours did the same. The street cleaners than just trundled along and cleared up the neat little piles and anything untoward. Why is this not at least encouraged and those who do bother helping keep their street clean commended in some way? I think the wheelie bin and recycling thing has now dragged things down a few notches and too many are giving up bothering to keep things neat and tidy when every week it all gets flung around and all the paraphernalia is just left laying about with nowhere to be placed tidily in too many small frontages. A big step backwards in my opinion. |