Well, if officially no, than it just proves the point that council may be the only ones setting streets against streets. Instead of dealing with the problem of parking (including possible introduction of CPZ together with reducing the related burden on small businesses and people working from home, they simply ignore the problem.Council is actually reducing parking opportunities – by introducing double yellow lines on corners around Griffin Park (there may be some logical reason for that, but... there were no double yellow lines there for decades and it did not seem to be a problem), by replacing existing garages with more housing, by proposing vast development of High Street (with more residents who will flood adjacent Albany Road Lateward Road, Mafeking Avenue, Brook Road South with their parked cars). And by the way what happened to the area in front of the old Magistrates Court building? There used to be parking there, and now it is a strange dead area. And the building itself – you wait, a few months from now it will look exactly as ghost old office blocks on the southern side of high street, completely dead, with broken window.And it would be interesting to know if council knows what cars are actually parked around Griffin Park? What percent of them belong to local residents, local businesses, residents of adjacent areas, commuters, etc?
Alex Shpinkov ● 4820d