Say NO to Clarendon Park Residents Parking
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The council control the number of parking spaces that the university can have and will not allow them to have any more. The university is already working hard to provide incentives and advice for staff to use alternative means of transport.
This is all very well and good for the people living on the other side of Clarendon Park Road but you come and live at the bottom of Lytton Road and work from home. Its impossible to find a parking spot if I need to go out in the day.
I won't be signing this!
I want parking permits on my street.
I agree there should be a lot more consultation with all residents rather than them just making up a boundary that doesn't really affect half of the people within it.
YES TO RESIDENTS PARKING PERMITS!
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The thing is its always been that problem for the 40 odd years I've lived here. That won't change. At least parking permits will make commuters either park somewhere else, pay to park in car parks or, I know, get the bus.
I understand it doesn't make sense to have permits if it doesn'teffct you. It does me I'm afraid so I'll be voting YES
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you obvious;y don't live on a street where it is a problem. If i go out in the day I have sometimes drove around for 14/20 mins looking for a spot.
I'll be voting YES
This does have a massive impact on me, but parking permits will not slove the problem. You will still not be able to park outside your house. You just have to pay to not park then. Voting no.
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Do we know how much of the parking is non-resident? The common statement that it's university staff and students is anecdotal. Lots of residents have cars, possibly at more than one per household. If they all get permits then the problem is simply monetised. It needs proper data collection before an expensive and divisive scheme is implemented. We were quoted something like 8 years of fees and fines to recover the implementation costs by the council, so the scheme will not be a pilot and not scrapped if unsuccessful.
This will have an adverse affect on a lot of things. Business is the main issue, small businesses will see a huge cost being implemented in their parking. So it's a poor deal for business. It's a poor deal for residents who care more about their money than their ability to find a space, and even that's a myth. Who said they looked for 14 minutes to find a space? Shut up you're just wasting people's time!
The people hit the hardest by this will be students. It's not just £25 for them but between £350-£500 extra for car insurance when the companies get all jittery about them leaving their parents to put their car in a larger city. You can bet that most student cars on those streets of CP are still registered at parents, so have to get a huge cost thrown at them if they wanna keep their car! They will undoubtedly choose to move somewhere else with freer parking meaning landlords will then begin to struggle.
I think this is too big to not be asking questions about, especially when the only people it benefits are grumpy residents and the council...
You are being asked to pay for what you already get for free. There is already tight parking in Clarendon Park but we accept that as part of the price of living in a vibrant neighbourhood. With the parking scheme spaces will be further diminished with additional 'No Parking' lines and zones. The cars will not diminish. Indeed when a senior citizen (often without a car) moves to a home or managed living space the price of property in Clarendon Park is such that only professionals on a good salary can buy in to the neighbourhood. If they are a couple that may well mean one or two additional cars. If we choose to live in Clarendon Park it is a 'lifestyle choice'.. and you accept the realities 'warts and all!'! So there it is....just get on with it!
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The problem with alternative means of transport i.e. buses is that they are unreliable and expensive. If the council wants residents to reduce car use which they're trying to do through a parking scheme, they should also work at improving public transport services - have more frequent buses (that actually arrive on time) serving the area and offer incentives to residents to use them often. It's puzzling why the issue of public transport has never been raised in the discussion on the residents parking scheme. There needs to be a holistic approach on this issue and a proper consultation with the residents with them fully participating in the whole process.
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