| Topic: | "Forcing" CPZs on other people | |
| Posted by: | Owen Highley | |
| Date/Time: | 06/10/14 13:57:00 |
| Nobody is trying to 'force' a CPZ on anybody else. The benefits of the Park Road/East Staveley Road CPZ were so obvious and game-changing that all the adjoining streets then generated Petitions for their own CPZs. No-one (least of all the Council) 'forced' them to do this. It was self interest. They saw the valuable benefits that Park Road and east Staveley Road had achieved and decided to bid for CPZs. We now await the democratic decisions of the people in those roads through the consultation process. If the streets that have applied for CPZs are successful and become zoned then residents in adjoining streets will have to consider their position. They might decide to continue the status quo, in which case they need do nothing, or they might wish to try their luck with their own Petitions. Whatever decision they make no one will 'force' a CPZ on on an individual street if it is not supported by residents. If it is true that 94% of Grove Park residents are against more CPZs then the streets outside the extended CPZ have nothing to worry about. There will never be enough support from residents for a CPZ and they will enjoy a blissful unforced and un-zoned existence in perpetuity. Correct me if I am wrong, but the Park Road/east Staveley Road CPZ went through only after due process (a formal consultation). Nobody 'forced' the residents of those streets into a CPZ. My recollection is the opposite. They had to fight tooth and nail for their CPZ at meeting after meeting of the Chiswick Area Committee - the very opposite of being 'forced'. |