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| Posted by: | Andrew Jones | |
| Date/Time: | 12/01/26 09:59:00 |
| "LBHF stated the change in CPZ was also about traffic flow." Oh really? Where did they state this? In https://haveyoursay.lbhf.gov.uk/parking-zone-a ? Nope. Can't see any mention of traffic flow there, what I can see is: "We are now consulting with residents in Zone A. This is your opportunity to protect your streets for years to come and prioritise parking for you and your visitors. You can choose whether to keep the parking controls as they are OR to extend controls across all of Zone A until 11pm, seven days a week with a two hour maximum stay, in line with the Olympia zones. We invite you to complete the short questionnaire which will help us to understand if any changes are required to improve parking on your street." Now if LBHF said privately to you that the changes on Beadon road were to do with Traffic Flow, that's different, but I'd be interested in you providing me with a link to where LBHF 'stated' the change in the CPZ was also about traffic flow. When LBHF first introduced a CPZ where I live, they asked residents if they would allow signs to be affixed to their boundary walls, adjacent to parking bays, in preference to posts being erected - which is why in some places the signs are on walls rather than posts. Now that was years ago, but this is a recent report by a local residents association that is present on the LBHF council website. https://www.lbhf.gov.uk/sites/default/files/2024-08/better-brackenbury-signage-and-street-clutter-report.pdf The feel of Brackenbury is, of course, very different to the environs of Zone A, but removing unnecessary street clutter is a thing. I take your point about lime bikes, but two wrongs don't make a right. "The time plate needed to be there. It still needs to be there. Again, you keep ignoring that LBHF personnel are referencing the Glenthorne time plates themselves. Confusion wasn't the problem. Now it is." You never explained why the time plate needed to be there, and when I asked you said it was obvious. Even if it did need to be there once upon a time, it doesn't need to be there now. In a month or two ( when people have cottoned on to the fact that you can't just park on a yellow line and assume it's ok, even on a sunday) there won't be people parking on Beadon Road when it's not allowed. I don't keep ignoring the fact that LBHF personnel are referencing the Glenthorne time plates, and I asked you what LBHF personnel told you about the relevance of these time plates to whether you could park in Beadon Road. I offered an explanation of why they might have been referring to these time plates, namely they were letting you know that you could park there because of the time plates in-situ on Glenthorne Road, and contrasting the ability to park there (because of aforesaid time plates) and the fact you can't now park on Beadon Road on a Sunday because there isn't a time plate overiding the default CPZ Zone times. "Sorry, what is the difference between a double yellow and the current time restrictions exactly?" No need to apologise. Double yellow is 24/7. Assuming that the TRO/TMO for Beadon Road has been made correctly, then the current restrictions on Beadon Road are no parking between 08:30 and 23:00, Mon-Sun. "majority" means nothing without context. - Indeed, I'd suggest this context in this case - more people expressed a preference to increase restrictions (out of the responses received during the consultation process) than those who expresses a preference for the alterbnative option of keeping restrictions as they were. Oh, and you're totally wrong about my agenda, and I certainly don't think it's ok for councils to penalise drivers, no matter what. I've frequently advocated sending out warning letters for initial contraventions, I've pointed out where I believe signage is inadequate. I've mentioned how LBHF used their discretion to cancel an entirely reasonably issued PCN when they didn't have to, and were entirely within their rights to demand I paid it. Hardly the actions of a money grabbing council seeking to penalize drivers whatever what which is what you are trying to portray LBHF as. I approve of the way LBHF mostly go about things e.g. https://www.lbhf.gov.uk/news/2026/01/trial-make-wormholt-safer-and-quieter where they were sending warning letters to drivers for two months before starting to enforce the restrictions with PCNs. There was even a sign on the A40 before the turn off onto Bloemfontein Road warning of the new restrictions now being enforced. What I object to is those drivers who believe they have some God give right to drive where ever and whenever they like, and consider any restrictions as unfair to them. |