Fears of parking chaos as number of residents-only schemes to be scrapped
MOTORISTS are bracing themselves for parking chaos in the new year, when a raft of residents-only parking schemes will be scrapped.
More than 30 streets in North East Lincolnshire will lose their schemes on January 1, because not enough residents responded to a council
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Increased charges: Michael Hugill, of Earl Street, voted to keep the parking scheme, but thought the new cost of a permit was excessive.
consultation.
As reported in yesterday's Grimsby Telegraph, only one of the existing schemes in the borough – covering Mill Road and Glebe Road in Cleethorpes – made it through to the second stage of consultation.
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And that scheme will only survive if at least 70 per cent of residents declare their intent to buy a new permit.
Residents living in the affected streets have been sent letters informing them that their schemes will be abolished.
Those who spoke to the Grimsby Telegraph yesterday said they wanted to keep residents-only parking permits – but not at the £80 cost demanded by the council.
As reported, the cost of a permit will rise 433 per cent from £15 to £80 from January – a move which provoked widespread outrage and two unsuccessful petitions from residents.
People living in the affected roads close to the centre of Grimsby fear their streets will become congested with the cars of shoppers visiting the town centre.
Michael Hugill, 59, of Earl Street, had voted to keep the scheme, but said the new cost of a permit was excessive.
He said: "People did want the scheme, but they didn't want to pay £80. I would have begrudgingly paid it. Come January we know we are going to be parking over the bridge and carting our shopping down the road because we won't be able to get our car outside the house."
His neighbour Mick Ebbs, 47, added: "We won't be able to get parked as all the shoppers will be parking down here. I have been in this street for 18 years and we have had residents-only parking all that time."
The following streets are losing residents-only parking:
Cleethorpes
Elm Avenue.
Elm Road.
Bursar Street.
Cosgrove Street.
Albert Road.
Grimsby
Anderson Street.
Cartergate.
Chantry Lane.
Crescent Street.
Earl Street.
Dover Street.
Littlefield Lane.
Lord Street.
Macauley Street.
Ripon Street.
Veal Street.
Doughty Road.
New Cartergate.
Alexandra Road.
Fildes Street.
Somersby Street.
Abbey Drive East.
Abbey Drive West.
Abbey Park Road.
Abbey Road.
Abbotsway.
Ainslie Street.
Manor Avenue.
St Olafs.
Wellowgate.
Willingham Street.
Another neighbour Rita Tomlinson, 60, said: "It will be horrendous. We get people parking down here anyway, but now it's going to be even worse.
"I replied to the first letter saying I didn't want the parking permit, but that was because of the price. If they had left it at £15, people would have been quite happy with that."
Councillor Andrew De Freitas (Lib Dem, Park), who spoke against the price rise at last week's cabinet meeting, said: "Residents are very upset about this because it means that their streets are going to be used as a car park by people visiting the town centre. It is an intolerable situation."
He said the widespread scrapping of schemes would hit the council's finances, as more shoppers would be able to park for free in residential areas rather than using the authority's pay and display car parks.
Councillor De Freitas said he intended to appeal against cabinet's decision to impose the price rise.
He said: "Residents want the schemes to remain. The issue is the actual level of charge."
Jason Longhurst, the council's head of development, said: "I recognise that this has been a contentious issue for residents affected by the new policy. But we cannot take forward residents' parking schemes where communities don't support them.
"The feedback from our consultation is that the majority of people have not asked us to keep their scheme, so most of them will end from the beginning of next year."
Residents can apply for a residents' parking scheme for their street by completing a supplication and submitting it to the council for consideration.
However, current schemes that are to be revoked in January will not be revisited for at least two years.
Comments
by nukedragga
Saturday, November 24 2012, 7:54PM
“I don't think the current council has anything to worry about at all when their principal critic of many AKAs is spamming about council tax around the country tonight on the thisis sites at
Bristol
http://tinyurl.com/d73wscu
Grimsby
http://tinyurl.com/7gjxr4j
Hull (Removed twice)
http://tinyurl.com/kup3p4
Nottingham (Removed once)
http://tinyurl.com/5stjmxn
Scunthorpe
http://tinyurl.com/cl8he2j
Staffordshire
http://tinyurl.com/cl8he2j
Sussex
http://tinyurl.com/cl8he2j
There may be more but as here, HE'S ALWAYS IGNORED and will probably end up writing in to himself and answering himself in mock debate hahaha.
The problem on the comments pages isn't with our council but with its chief critic who's given us coal dust, windmills, council tax and bailiffs ad nauseum.
It's sad really but follow him, collect a lot of points and it's very revealing.”
by jack_knife
Saturday, November 24 2012, 7:47PM
“nukedragga,
If, as you say, "No wonder theses comments facilities are a total waste of time....etc" then WHY do YOU keep popping up on them???”
by inthemachines
Saturday, November 24 2012, 4:28PM
“by Knuckledragger,
"Comments boards change nothing"
I wonder if your best friend, whose efforts you've been tirelessly trying to suppress on various comments boards across the country, has, in a small way had a part to play in 'round two' of bringing out into the open the kind of abuse associated with NE£C's notorious contractor?
Several Nationals are returning to publishing articles and even a couple of local rags are daring to cover the issue. Questions, although fobbed-off by ministers, are also being put in Parliament.
http://tinyurl.com/cya7ugh
You need any more references, just ask.”
by nukedragga
Saturday, November 24 2012, 3:57PM
“…'particularly when MOST of the adverse comments'.
How does that translate into
…'EVERY comment on every thread'?
No wonder these comments facilities are a total waste of time as they are seized upon by the axe grinders. Comments boards change nothing.”
by misterPBC
Saturday, November 24 2012, 2:59PM
“So Cabinet doesn't like being called names ! Ok I apologise (even though he has called me stupid in the past ). He has also said twice he's not against residents parking schemes, which is meaningless, I know people who are not against them but it doesn't mean they'd vote for them. I have been called names and falsely maligned since my first post on this thread,which advocated civil disobedience and the challenging of vested interests,which are long cherished methods of protest in this country. A post which was somewhat tongue in cheek and designed to bring out people who just want free town centre parking( a very rare thing theese days) and get them to say something silly,which was only partially successful. In Cabinets case I'm not sure, what are you Cabinet ? a disinterested bystander or are you a member of the council? You seem to know rather a lot about dropped kerbs , which I also knew, my neighbour having tried that ruse ages ago. You also know how I could get a parking scheme going in my street, but wouldn't you block it in the same way as you have told me I can't have a dropped kerb ? If you are a member of a council cabinet then I think you do know me, can I have your assurances that any application made on behalf of my street will not be dismissed out of hand?”
by justsaying
Saturday, November 24 2012, 10:38AM
“Nukedragga has it all worked out - every comment on every thread that criticises the council is the work of a single person using multiple aliases. After all everyone else in N E Lincs loves Labour because they are so wonderful and wise - and as he is one of them we should all believe him!”
by nukedragga
Saturday, November 24 2012, 10:22AM
“If I was permitted to be just saying I would say that nobody takes the slightest notice of these silly little comments attached to threads, particularly when most of the adverse comments aimed at the council are the bile of a single person of many AKAs :-0
All entropy, no sense – awwww and are people still counting the points?”
by justsaying
Saturday, November 24 2012, 10:05AM
“Good advice from akabula:
Wednesday, November 14 2012, 9:39AM
.
"Remember who tried to impliment these ideas when the next local council elections come around."”
by EnlightedOne
Friday, November 23 2012, 10:11AM
“I detect smugness in the tone of the last few comments. I wouldn't be so self congratulatory about exposing methods of control, which have been tried and tested by various leaders over many millennia.
Perhaps these contributors have been, or are in positions of leadership? If so, they must know that however many times their subjects expose them, they can quickly and easily be brought round to their way of thinking.”
by b17583
Thursday, November 22 2012, 9:49PM
“Many of these problems could be solved by reviewing the yellow lines and getting rid of the ones that serve no useful purpose.
Hainton Avenue is a perfect example - today's paper said that there is a permanent change to allow parking on both sides of the road on the south side of Welholme Road, but only one side to the north. Why can't there be parking on both sides all of the way down the street?
Not only would it help to reduce parking problems in the street, but it would also help to slow down the traffic and help the local shops!
This is just one example of many - The current Labour council needs to do something useful to help instead of their unhelpful, lazy and unimaginative approach. No wonder people are turning against them!”