Looks like Southwark will be pulling off the miracle of a white (wash) Christmas http://moderngov.southwark.gov.uk/mgIssueHistoryHome.aspx?IId=50021413&Opt=0 Decision not before 23rd December but you can bet it happens over Christmas and the resident and business objections have been disregarded As said before by others, the council see it as a way of supplementing their coffers as whilst the revenue raised from it is ring fenced, it doesn't stop them from reducing how much other funding is placed in the road improvement pot by the same amount as the cpz generates and moving that funding elsewhere Some call it creative accounting...