| Topic: | Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Full 6 day CPZ for Brook Rd South | |
| Posted by: | Anthony Waller | |
| Date/Time: | 23/03/14 09:19:00 |
| Have to agree, I cannot see how this scheme will achieve anything but a no go zone for visitors to residents. It will punish residents far more than the permit for their cars. It will cost a small fortune in visitors permits and surcharges for deliveries and tradesmen. Yet it will still be a free for all after 5.30. So residents inside the zone will pay heavily and residents outside will still have somewhere to park for free overnight. The two hour scheme with carefully selected timings for the latter part of the day will be equally effective in deterring the all day parking, but could also be far more effective in deterring non resident overnighters. One of those hours could be 6.30 -7.30. And all day saturday? Surely one hour on matchdays is more than sufficient. Do we really want to ban having visitors? Do we not all park at sometime in other residential streets when we visit? Are we not the problem to other residents districts at some time or other? What was apparent at the council meeting is that in both CPZs on the table, is the complete lack of initiative in dealing with the root causes. West Middlesex Hospital is to take on a vast increase in patients from the reductions at other hospitals. Patients are driven to hospitals collected and visited. There are no planned bus services to cover the changes on location for patients. Many treatments no longer require a stay in hospital but do require a responsible person meet, accompany and drive the patient home. So, no plans for adequate parking facilities at the Hospital. The money hospital parking charges make goes mainly to operating contract holders. It could contribute for a large underground car park with decent capacity. But common sense says an adequate car park for the hospital is really the solution and quite possible. The same goes for Brentford. The root of the problems are commuters who no longer drive into London but use the much improved public transport. But quite unlike other countries, no park and ride facilities exist. The stations have no adequate or affordable parking. In other countries, commuter car parks straddle railway cuttings, easy and cheap and using space that cannot be used for anything else. Planning policy needs to be amended to not allow developments with inadequate parking but also to not be allowed to rip it's occupants off with over the top charges - and this includes so called responsible Housing Association landlords like A2Dominion who are quite appalling in their stewardship. Even now, the same problems are still being further fuelled. The Go -Ahead without question for the Brentford Football Club new site has even less parking facilities than exist at present. Not one person has answered the question. Where will away fans who travel long distances actually park? Where are all the spaces that council officers identified actually located. If that were the case, we would not have a problem here for sure and a CPZ would be totally unnecessary. |