Controversial Residents Parking Changes Agreed by Council
The controversial changes proposed to residents parking brought a
record amount of objections. A special residents parking edition of the Lib Dem
Focus leaflet in the town centre had over 80 people return the attached
objection form to the Council.
The proposals include a more than doubling of the permit cost to £25 a year, a
£50 cost to a second permit and a £100 cost to a third one, newcomers to be
limited to only one permit and a phasing out of the second and third permit over
three years to existing holders, a reduction of visitor permits to per household not
as now per person and the creation of special operational permits for occupation or
service users at £1.10 for one hour.
The obvious worry is for residents with more than one
car - often by necessity rather than desire. The believed benefit of the
proposals will be the generation of more spaces to park but the ultimate
question is do the dis-benefits outweigh the hoped for gain in parking.
Residents parking sole role is to help residents not make their life's more
difficult - it is this principal that appears to have been forgotten as the council
agreed the changes.
The new scheme is scheduled to start in February or March.
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