| Topic: | The truth about Park Road residents & their actual permit purchase | |
| Posted by: | Andy Murray | |
| Date/Time: | 09/10/14 16:29:00 |
| Vanessa - I did, thanks. (I'm sure you will concur when I say that LB of H are not exactly brisk when replying to FOIs, so if I didn't have this info now, I wouldn't be getting it for at least another 6 weeks). The answer was: "88 residents have applied for a permit to park in Park Road W4 and 23 residents have applied for a permit to park in Staveley Road W4." Fair enough, it is 12% more than the total of residents who voted for a CPZ (99), but it is by no means a majority. (Total households polled in Park & Staveley = 246). As I'm sure many are tired of hearing, a CPZ request is not an election - there shouldn't be an excuse for a poor turnout. You either have an overwhelming need for a CPZ in your road or you don't. So after all the 'everyone in my road wants a CPZ' rhetoric, to discover that fewer than half actually want to engage with one suggests to me that the claims were exaggerated. NB: I think those residents at the southern end of the radio had a stronger case than others, because many fewer of them have offroad parking and the Grove Park Cars minicabs take up daytime spaces - but park Road, at 900 metres, is one of the longest roads in Chiswick, so there is not necessarily the same issue throughout. But we weren't allowed to consider that. Plus, lest we forget, the rationale for this Single Member Decision was the alleged 'likely' (but never measured, before or after) displacement from Chiswick House car park, which is nearly a mile from Chiswick overground station / bottom end of Park Road. My separate research (submitted to the Chis Area Forum) suggests that there were always spaces somewhere in Park Road (fair enough, fewer at the southern end), plus of course even the Traffic Dept. didn't include Staveley Road in their 2011 proposals - and that was after 7 years of individual discussions in GP. When even the Traffic Dept doesn't think you need a CPZ, you REALLY don't need one. (I believe you live in Brentford, so please don't take any of the above as necessarily applying anywhere else). |