The other day we had five ambulances, a fire engine and a police car outside our living room window, trying without success to access the estate on which we live.  The reason for their lack of success was that two cars were parked side by side across the very narrow stretch of Town Field Way which is the sole access and exit from the estate, leaving a gap of less than two feet between them. The West Middlesex estate comprises 143 dwellings and the adjacent White Lodge Close 149 dwellings.  All of the latter and 99 of the former were blocked to vehicles when this double parking took place, a total of 248 households. Incredibly, this road blockage was not the first of its kind.  In fact it happens on an approximately weekly basis and has done for several years since a bay was made available for a Car Club without any restrictions first having been placed upon the space directly opposite.  Anybody using the space opposite the Car Club bay for parking can do so legitimately, and then if a car is returned by a club user that too may lawfully be parked in its allocated bay, creating said blockage of access to and from 248 dwellings. I reported this to one of our ward councillors several years ago, and also to a senior officer dealing with parking at LBH.  Whether it is because I was the person who reported it (and they are certainly petty and insecure enough for this to be the case) or whether it was down to good old-fashioned inefficiency no attempt to rectify the situation (a process which would involve the painting of about 12-15 feet of double yellow lines on one side of the road) has been made at any time during this entire period. Following last week's incident the police have taken it upon themselves to place cones along one side of the road to ensure access.  Are our local councillors (one of whom is the Leader of the Council) at all embarrassed by this?  Presumably if they are they will finally despatch a man with a brush and a can of yellow paint to perform this highly complex and intricate operation in the very near future.  If they don't, then judge for yourselves the level of contempt in which ordinary residents of this borough are held by those who profess to represent them.

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Topic	Date Posted	Posted By
LBH Wilful Parking Inaction Endangers Lives in Isleworth	07/04/19 20:30:00	Phil Andrews
Re:LBH Wilful Parking Inaction Endangers Lives in Isleworth	07/04/19 22:03:00	Sarah Felstead
Re:Re:LBH Wilful Parking Inaction Endangers Lives in Isleworth	20/04/19 10:04:00	Philippa Bond
Re:Re:Re:LBH Wilful Parking Inaction Endangers Lives in Isleworth	20/04/19 20:19:00	Bernard Allen
Re:Re:Re:Re:LBH Wilful Parking Inaction Endangers Lives in Isleworth	21/04/19 11:59:00	Philippa Bond
Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:LBH Wilful Parking Inaction Endangers Lives in Isleworth	21/04/19 14:36:00	Bernard Allen
Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:LBH Wilful Parking Inaction Endangers Lives in Isleworth	21/04/19 18:37:00	Philippa Bond

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