This Wednesday, the Tory Cabinet agreed the Parking Strategy Report, despite a lengthy debate and opposition from many Councillors.
Much was said by the Tory Cabinet members why this was the best thing since sliced bread, they just can not see what damage they will be doing to our small town centres.
However all is not lost, as the opposition spokesman on Environmental matters i will be "calling in" the report, which means that the Cabinet can not act on the proposals until a meeting of the Environment Overview & Scrutiny meeting has been held.
This will then give Residents Association and other opposition Councillors the chance to question the Cabinet on why they are bringing forward the plan and all of its 28 recommendations. Once the meeting date has been agreed, i will post more info.
In the mean time, the on line petition is increasing in size every day, if you would like to sign it, follow the link below.
http://www.gopetition.com/online/12181.html
Much was said by the Tory Cabinet members why this was the best thing since sliced bread, they just can not see what damage they will be doing to our small town centres.
However all is not lost, as the opposition spokesman on Environmental matters i will be "calling in" the report, which means that the Cabinet can not act on the proposals until a meeting of the Environment Overview & Scrutiny meeting has been held.
This will then give Residents Association and other opposition Councillors the chance to question the Cabinet on why they are bringing forward the plan and all of its 28 recommendations. Once the meeting date has been agreed, i will post more info.
In the mean time, the on line petition is increasing in size every day, if you would like to sign it, follow the link below.
http://www.gopetition.com/online/12181.html
2 comments:
I bet you don't publish this, but here goes.
My part of Havering does not enjoy any free car parks and so why should I subsidise free parking in other areas?
Many areas such as Hilldene, Collier Row and Hornchurch have free parking, but you can never get a space because the same shopkeepers and their staff who are moaning about this take the spaces all day!
The Front Lane car park which had all the contraversy is wonderful. the LUL staff and all-day parkers have been squeezed out and so you can now get a space.
Getting rid of disc parking and replacing it with pay and display is great - you can never by discs, some shopkeepers abuse it and we always have 20p for a quick stop.
Finally, a limit on parking permits (with proper charges) will force some of these people with many cars and work vans from funding somewhere else to park rather than clog the streets up and cause dangers at junctions and bends.
Yes, I am a driver, but my family has made the decision to have one car and we have one off-street space. We also try and get the bus as much as we can.
We need a sensible, two-sided debate to this, not just a knee-jerk rangt as we are getting.
Although i do not normally publish or deal with e-mails with anonymous comments, i thought i would in this case. THe main reason is they do not use foul or abusive comments which sadly is the norm.
Although the person concerned does not agree with our line, what he or she is doing is putting up a constructive debate, something which the Tory Cabinet members did not do before they published thier 28 point action point.
If you talk to shop keepers (and i have done a lot of that in the last two weeks) some, and i say some, would like some small charge to combat long stay parking, however you need to look at each individual area, not bring it in across the whole Borough. Andy
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