Last week, Havering Council held its full Council meeting and this gave the Residents Association across the Borough to hand in our car park petition to the Mayor.
Graham Price and myself were present and i handed in the Collier Row part of the petition with over 2000 signatures, 2236 to be exact and this figure still goes up each week.
The new measures propose parking charges in ALL council car parks 7 days a week, charging disabled drivers for parking, additional waiting restrictions in residential areas and disc parking largely replaced by 'Pay & Display'.
Residents’ Associations across the borough launched petitions opposing the proposals. A grand total of 16,285 registered their disapproval of the proposed charges with Upminster (4,715), Cranham (2,803), Collier Row (2,236), Hornchurch (2,997), Elm park (2,629) Cherry Tree (344) and the internet petition (561) making up the total.
Although to date, the Conservative Administration running the Town Hall have refused to budge on this issue, we are still hopeful that they will take notice, almost 20,000 have objected to date on this terrible new policy.
It will affect our smaller shopping centres and drive people away to bigger shops such as Tesco at Gallows Corner and Lakside. I accept that the charge at the moment is only small, 20p, but how long before this becomes 50p and then a £1 and then £2, we will wait and see.
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