MY email yesterday to the head of culture and communications: "It really needs for any such arrangements to be discussed with ward councillors beforehand. It is particularly galling that these discussions have been going on for many months with relevant ward councillors, Cabinet members, and you apparently completely in the dark. It also doesn’t help that FilmFixer don’t answer the phone, though Flynn (from the filming team) did do his best to help. This suspension will affect people beyond the roads directly affected as parking is very limited all over that part of Brentford. They already have to accommodate the people who used to park in the Windmill Rd car park, the Albany Place car park, as well as people from developments which have no parking provision , such as Great West Quarter and even the new houses on Windmill Road. Most of these have cars and they park in CPZ areas outside controlled times. Now added to these will be people excluded from Braemar Road, Brook Road South, and Lateward Road. I have no idea if residents have been informed about these very bureaucratic provisions for reimbursements [they now have been] for parking costs. People will take unkindly to having to fill out complicated forms and will not be impressed. It is also unacceptable to use the hours stated. Are we expecting people to get up at 5am to move their cars and to return from work at lunch time to avoid cars being charged after 13.00? These unwieldy provisions are not acceptable. I believe we should give any residents a voucher to show in their car and put the admin burden on the filmers and/or the car parks who want to claim fees. This should at minimum cover the whole of the days from 6pm in the evening of 9th march until 9am on 14th March. This would enable residents to make civilised adjustments to their lives and allow them to allay the inevitable inconvenience. Better still would be for the council or the filmers to issue a voucher to cover all the affected residents. £20 for say 300 homes would not make much of a hole in ‘tens of thousands’." To be fair, he went to the trouble to investigate and inform me. My beef is not so much with that than with the complete lack of info to any councillor or senior officer. I completed my communication to those in charge to say the support proposal was contemptible.

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Topic	Date Posted	Posted By
Filming Parking BRS Zones Closed to Residents	04/03/25 17:51:00	Jai Williams
Re:Filming Parking BRS Zones Closed to Residents	04/03/25 23:07:00	Jim Lawes
Re:Re:Filming Parking BRS Zones Closed to Residents	05/03/25 07:20:00	Guy Lambert
Re:Re:Re:Filming Parking BRS Zones Closed to Residents	05/03/25 09:41:00	Jim Lawes
Re:Re:Re:Re:Filming Parking BRS Zones Closed to Residents	06/03/25 09:36:00	Guy Lambert
Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Filming Parking BRS Zones Closed to Residents	06/03/25 12:11:00	Guy Lambert
Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Filming Parking BRS Zones Closed to Residents	07/03/25 12:57:00	Jai Williams
Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Filming Parking BRS Zones Closed to Residents	07/03/25 23:16:00	Guy Lambert
Re:Filming Parking BRS Zones Closed to Residents	11/03/25 14:58:00	Raymond Havelock
Re:Re:Filming Parking BRS Zones Closed to Residents	12/03/25 07:24:00	David Squire
Re:Re:Re:Filming Parking BRS Zones Closed to Residents	12/03/25 08:45:00	Anne England

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