| Topic: | Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Hamilton Road C.P.Z. to happen! | |
| Posted by: | Jeremy Probert | |
| Date/Time: | 08/08/12 10:39:00 |
| It wasn't, and has never been, a case of voting 'yes'. It's not a democratic process - the 'vote' is simply a consultation at which people indicate their support for a CPZ or otherwise - the final decision rests with the council's planning committee. Which sometimes takes notice of the consultation and sometimes doesn't. It's a small point, but needs to be taken into account. The 'offloading of the other new CPZs' has been going on for years - certainly since I moved into the area in 2002. It's just reached breaking point now, where even those who didn't support a CPZ and never would have realised there is no merit in being the last bit of free parking in a borough of CPZs. I really don't think the Council is bright enough (apologies to Matt, if he's listening) to have come up with an evil scheme to raise funds through subtly forcing people to ask for CPZs for which they can charge. And if that is the Council's plan, then no-one informed the planning committee in 2010, when they rejected a CPZ in Griffin Park out of hand. The cost associated with a CPZ (arbitrary though it is, I agree) is there to pay for enforcement and monitoring. It's not a tax. (That being said - the quality of the recently-painted double yellows on Hamilton Road leaves something to be desired, and a sleeping traffic warden has been spotted in The Butts, so maybe the money could be better spent.) I don't like the idea of paying to park, but, if that's what it takes to keep the commuters and the LGVs at bay, to give me a chance at parking on the street, then so be it. We live in 21st century London - paying for something that used to be free is the norm. Anyone would think the council was going to keep the money for themselves and have a nice Christmas Party with it. Finally, Hamilton Road is now officially divided. There's a leafletting campaign going on, but they're avoiding the houses known to be pro CPZ. A rearguard action is being fought. We'll be like the Crips and the Bloods soon (or the Sharks and the Jets, for those of a certain age) wearing identifying insignia and having organised 'rumbles' down near the Royal Oak. *sigh* |