| Topic: | Re:Re:Re:Re:Re::CPZ meeting 26/01/11 | |
| Posted by: | Nick Brown | |
| Date/Time: | 03/02/11 14:04:00 |
| Dear Adam, I sense your frustration re the conflict between national planning policies and the needs of the residents. Fortunately the Localism bill is designed to solve this problem for you, in that it recognises that local issues should be solved at a local level. That means that if the local residents want extra parking near the tube stations and abolishment of the CPZ, then that is what Councillors should be implementing, or expect to be voted out. This is of course not new, it is called democracy, what is scary is how out of touch with this concept our public sector has become. This CPZ debate being a case in point. If I may suggest, the debate should be:- The residents want a car park on site "X", here are some other proposals for the use of site "X" with transparent costing. The residents can then decide where their hard earned cash can be best spent to the benefit of the community in which they live. You cannot just say "This suggestion is in Cloud Cuckoo Land" This is only your frame of reference, and that frame of reference is becoming increasingly discredited by this debate. Do you have any figures on what % of the cash raised from all sources from Chiswick residents is actually spent in Chiswick, because locally there is a strong suspicion that a lot of it is spent elsewhere on Libraries etc. Can we see these figures? if not why not? what is going on? Why cannot this money be spent to build a car park near the tube on a brownfield site so we can park outside our houses and drive to the tube to use public transport, make parking free for low emission vehicles if you want, but we feel the need to be able to drive our cars, and park near shops or transport hubs. This is a basic human need, but for some reason the Public Sector seems to be doing every thing it can to destroy that basic element of our quality of life. We carried out a survey of over a million Londoners in our Listening to London Campaign associated with Steve Norriss's Mayor of London Campaign, what matters to Londoners first second and third is Transport, Transport and Transport, this has been the case for 20 years to my knowledge. What do you think are the reasons for the Public sector pulling in the opposite direction? |