Topic: | Re:Re:Re:The introduction of CPZ's means fewer parking spaces | |
Posted by: | Eileen Henderson | |
Date/Time: | 01/04/13 15:53:00 |
Have just read the whole thread! Yeow!! Don't believe that a CPZ should be instigated in Lateward Road. They have additional parking available on the 'park' side. The families that have two or more cars are the problem for night parking. Also as most writers have stated the 'width' of their houses can only 'just' accommodate a car so if you have a 4x4 or estate (as I have seen) then they are parking over the boundaries of next doors frontage. Bad parking is prevalent with small cars parking so badly that where only this one car is parked three could have been accommodated. It could have resulted from one car parking badly in the first place and the consequent knock on effect cascading. The street by street CPZ implementation will have catastrophic effects on the parking in Brentford. This will have a detrimental effect on business in the area. If staff can't park then businesses can't expand. Living near a train station or a football ground will ALWAYS bring problems with parking as is the case here. If you are a family then I rightly suppose that you will be a 2 car family and when the kids grow up.... I noticed a CPZ implemented on Southdown Avenue near Boston Manor Station. Once where cars abounded on both sides during the day it is now a 'ghost' area with barely a car in sight. The same can be said for an area on Greenford Road in Ealing where parking bays have been marked on the road - barely a car parks there now - all were spaces, which accommodated the workers for nearby businesses. Workers will now, no doubt, have been shoved onto nearby residential streets. Planners obviously saw big dollar signs and put these in place, and as some writers have already said, residents are now sorely repenting their CPZs. What has to be addressed is that the Council NEEDS to make sure that new developments have a minimum of 1 car parking space per unit in any development. NO development should be approved unless this basic standard is adhered to. The cost of this space should be included in the price of the unit NOT as an additional cost (ranging from £12,000 per space as I heard on one development - consequently leaving empty'ish allocated car parks and the developments' car owners then parking on local surrounding streets). AND for goodness sake people, HAVE A BIT OF COMMUNITY SPIRIT. |