Hoorah for Ken&Chelsea

[PeckhamRose]

Maybe Southwark will do a similar thing.

Yeah right.

But if anyone is going to the Community Council meetings can they raise the issue? I am working so can't go then.

I started a thread all about the Community Council meeting.

[Huguenot]

I note that K&C aren't removing them (which would add to destructive parking habits), just making the two hours free in order to allow people local shopping access, but not making it convenient overspill parking for commuters.

Which are the pay and display zones you want changing to give two free hours?

I understand that the K&C one is to combat the free parking at Westfield? Is there a new scheme that threatens this area also?

[????]

,,,,hugenot do you work for a meter company or something..

ANECTDOTALLY....which I know you hate...

I live in Fellbrigg Road....with the exception of Saturday am parking isn't a problem...it's just not needed

Where there are parking restrictions you get the joy of tickets adminsutered after 6 mins in a 5 min spot outside a nursery as happened to my missus last week

You get tickets falsley given - which I have personally have happened twice and managed to get overturned...this involves appealing in the face of ever threatening letters and escaalating fines and finally having it dropped if you say you are willing to go to court with witnesses...you get no recompense, or even an apolgy from Southwark, forthe stress and inconvenience of all this which is in effect challenging an illegal action on their behalf.

Friends/relatives visiting fromout of town......nowhere to park or getting up at 8am and moving the car and then doing this every 2 hours until 6pm....yeah, thank's for letting us stay.

If your permit is deemed to be illegaly placed KERCHING...more money for Southwark to spend Diversity Monitors at ?40K a year..

Plus we are entering a recession and rather than ignore traders who have experienced this in Peclham/HH and Greenwich and 'risk' that restrictions will cause no problem for traders on the Lane (after all we have no evidence)let's not give them another burden in hard times.

Finally, I hate to bring it up, but you, not quite on yor own, but certainly most vocally, keep questioning any of us who fight parking in SE22, when you have no intention of ever returning and won't have to face closed shops and parking nazi's eagerly waiting at the end of our roads at 7.59am.

[woofmarkthedog]

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[woofmarkthedog]

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[????]

no "woof"?

[woofmarkthedog]

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[Tony.London Suburbs]

I have to say one of the joys of living where I do is that my local area is free to park for 2 hours, so all shopping is catered for.

There are several parades of Shops (Sherwood Parade, The Green and THe Oval) where it is always free and I can, literally, park outside my local Co-op supermarket by the entrance.

Would hate the hassle of Traffic Nazi's.

[Huguenot]

I always try to make the point, TLS, that I'm not for or against parking restrictions, but I do note that there are often good arguments that favour some restrictions bthat go unheard. I just like to keep their head above water ;-)

I also note that those arguments against parking restrictions are often disingenuous and misrepresent the facts. As I've said before, 50mph restrictions on the M25 make journeys faster not slower, and managing parking in ED may make traders more successful - at the expense of the freeloaders.

On this one... PR was complimenting K&C on providing 2 hours free parking. K&C haven't removed parking restrictions, just made them free.

ED doesn't seem to have any equivalent parking restrictions that could be made free, so I wondered what she was referring to?

[PeckhamRose]

I'm a motorcyclist so apart from in Westminster on Sundays all bike parking is free.

But I do care about car drivers and local shops survival, and the horror stories I read on places like this forum saying how fascist parking attendants ticket people picking up their kids one minute over the time. That sort of thing.

K&C apparently are doing this because of the free parking offered by Westfield.