Southwark's Parking / Stopping Restrictions

[Earl Aelfheah]

So I had to drop my daughters off at a summer club in SE5. I couldn't park anywhere. Not because of a lack of spaces, but because of a completely overzealous and irrational approach to parking restrictions.

You cannot park, even briefly, anywhere within the area between Lomond Grove, Southampton Way and Elmington Road. You would be hard pressed to find more than a few parked cars anywhere within this area - there is no shortage of supply, or obvious, significant demand from residents.

A lot of the area was cleared many years ago by Southwark Council and has only recently started being redeveloped (total incompetence, but another story), so there are fairly large, empty and 'plots'. What housing there is often has it's own parking (the low rise council blocks), so this might explain the low level of obvious demand from residents. I know this area well having lived there for the best part of a decade and I cannot understand why there is a blanket ban on cars stopping?

Their policy has the hallmarks of a solution looking for a problem. I cannot understand why Southwark would want to create large areas where people 'pass through', but do not stop. Think about it, what kind of area is it that lot's of people drive through, but no one stops to actually spend any time in?

[TheArtfulDogger]

In a nutshell you have described southwarks policy towards cars and CPZs

In a word NO

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