Topic: | We're all Brendan's neighbours | |
Posted by: | Andy Murray | |
Date/Time: | 29/01/15 14:43:00 |
Brendan, I am happy to announce that I live in the next street to you. I sympathise and I don't gainsay any of your issues. In fact I agree with you that we (being much closer to Gunnersbury than Elmwood Road), have a much stronger case for a CPZ than many. But I, like Iris Hill (another neighbour), still don't want a CPZ, and nor do the 300 members of the GPG, many of whom live in your street, my street, and Iris's. One reason for both of us is that we would be likely to lose 8 car lengths per street to double yellow lines. Unless more than a third of your parkers are non-residents (and, anecdotally, my street mostly contains cars of residents), you will find it very difficult to park. We don't have any off-street parking, either: not one in my section. I only have one small car, one of the smallest you could find, but, again, as I said last night, Grove Park residents living east of Sutton Court Road have the highest proportion of 3-car ownership in Chiswick; east of Park Rd., it is the highest proportion of 4 OR MORE cars or vans. (Source: 2011 National Census). Newer arrivals to the area, again only anecdotally, appear to favour much larger cars and have more of them. Perhaps that is a factor, as opposed to commuters, although there are of course commuters as well, as above. As I said last night, we are all neighbours in Grove Park, and I for one, don't think 'holistic' is a word meriting the sniggers of those in the row behind me last night whenever it was used. I still say that we should be exploring constructive solutions based on facts, rather than the bludgeoning, one-size-hurts-all, approach of a CPZ. But maybe I'm just too idealistic. |