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| Posted by: | Andrew Jones | |
| Date/Time: | 08/01/26 14:01:00 |
| I'm sure it (the new restrictions) does have an impact on sustainability for high street trading in the area, and you will no doubt have far more of an idea on the impact than I have as you are an affected trader. How is extending the hours of control antagonising to the majority of residents if the majority of residents voted for increasing the hours of control? "all residents and businesses in Zone A were written to in June 2025." - this is the first time on this thread you have said that (according to the council) all businesses were supposed to have been contacted - fair enough - I'm happy to accept your claim that this didn't happen but don't accuse me of not following on and then saying (incorrectly) immediately afterwards (in a previous post of yours) that "I have said I was told "all businesses" were consulted ..." - you may have said this beforehand somewhere else, but it wasn't on this thread. "Why not tighten up within the entire zone which is what is implied by the entire communication with LBHF." Not sure if this is a rhetorical question or not - but if it isn't. So what do you want David, for the new 08:30-23:00 restriction to apply to ALL yellow lines within CPZ Zone A? That's not exactly going to help trading conditions is it? Do you want two lanes of traffic being able to drive along Glenthorne Road but not be able to park there, or would you prefer there to be only one lane and the ability for visitors to park on Glenthorne Road - wouldn't that be better for trade? "Plenty of people travel from one borough to the next not expecting to be penalized for parking on a single yellow on a Sunday. And if the nearest sign says you may, why would anyone think "hold up, let's look back a half-mile to double check?"" Would you park on a single yellow line on a weekday at 4pm? I doubt it. Sunday restrictions have gradually become far more widespread, and drivers need to realise that they need to be more careful about where and when they park than they used to be. For years, there have been places in London where you can only park on a yellow line between midnight and sometime in the morning. Near Westfield for many years you now couldn't park on a yellow line until 22:00, even on Sundays. I'm not so opposed to updating a existing timeplate ( I think I may even have mentioned that I said that would have been a better option, and I certainly advocated putting up some information about the changes). Why was the time plate sign there? Yes it's obvious on one level, that the time plate was there to inform people of the restrictions, but that's not what I was driving at. There are plenty of yellow lines all over London, and most don't have any adjacent time plates. This particular time plate might well have been put there because LBHF chose to have different restrictions for the yellow line on Beadon Road compared to elsewhere in the CPZ that Beadon Road is in, when the CPZ was brought in. It was brought in years ago. It might have been, because they found that loads of people were parking there during restricted hours, it might even have predated the CPZ. Or there may have been some other reason it was put there. But, the bottom line is that the time plate is no longer needed to indicate the restrictions in Beadon Road because these are (I presume) between 08:30-23:00 every day, the same as what's on the CPZ Entry Zone signs. |