ePetition - Parking Consultation in the Coombe Road Area
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Parking Consultation in the Coombe Road Area
The consultation should include the areas bordering Bear Road and Southall Avenue up to The Avenue, Lewes Road and Bevendean Road.
The consultation should recognise the different needs of residents who live at the bottom of the hill and those at the top of the hill and also the existing pressures of high number of HMOs in the area and that it is a densely populated community.
Residents are interested in a combination of permit holders only bays in roads such as Riley Road and Dewe Road and light touch two-hour restrictions further up the hill. Residents are distressed at the influx of long-term large vehicles such as camper vans and caravans that are 'dumped' outside their houses.
This ePetition ran from 12/10/2017 to 27/11/2017 and has now finished.
326 people signed this ePetition.
Council response
“Thank you for your petition and we fully understand the concerns of residents in your area.
The current situation as regards the decision making by this committee is that there is a parking scheme consultation priority timetable which has been set now until 2020/21 and this was agreed at the last Environment, Transport and Sustainability Committee meeting.
This covers areas which have petitioned or shown very strong support to the council for a Controlled Parking Zone (CPZ). As I'm sure you will understand, we need residents to come forward before we can consider consulting on a resident parking scheme. We don’t impose resident parking schemes on residents; it works the other way around.
Currently there are no plans to include the area north of Bear Road in a CPZ as until recently there had been little correspondence from residents within that area, although I am aware of the discussion around Section 106 monies potentially being used for a parking scheme consultation as part of the Barracks development.
As part of that, there may be funding and resource available to consider a consultation in your area. It would be helpful if a larger number of residents also requested it, meaning over a larger area. You’ve got a significant number of signatures but from across a larger area, if that’s possible, that would be helpful.
We will monitor this and we can reassure you that your area may be considered for inclusion alongside the Preston Barracks development timetable subject to ongoing discussions with those developers”.