Council's CPZ Review for Morley Road area, East Twickenham
The Council has been in receipt of comments from residents of the Morley Road area of Twickenham concerning parking and traffic conditions.
Morley Road is situated within the East Twickenham controlled parking zone (CPZ) (zone F) which comprises parking areas designated for use by resident permit holders, business permit holders and visitors (parking meter/voucher). Where parking areas are not designated, yellow lines (either single or double) are in place.
Following discussions with residents, the ward councillors and the Cabinet Member, it was decided to undertake a parking review in the area. The review, which has been undertaken by one of the Council’s consultants, set out to:
- Identify any locations where extra parking areas could be created to maximise the overall parking capacity in the area. This includes the continuation of parking areas across driveways of single households (where considered safe and practical to do so) to allow residents/occupiers of these properties and/or their visitors to park in front of the driveways on display of a valid parking permit. This is in line with the Council’s policy for CPZs.
- Address road safety problems caused by parked vehicles.
— from www.richmond.gov.uk/morley_road
— highlighted to the site by Gerhard Schellberg
6 January 2009 | Category » news
Comments
What is interesting about this proposal is that the council’s letter fails to mention that they will be also taking away 20 spaces. Most of the additional spaces to be created will only be available to the owners of driveways who presumably use their driveways to park anyway.
Mary at 9 January 2009 10:13 PM
Sorry, error. It is 31 spaces that they are proposing to remove
Mary at 9 January 2009 10:16 PM
Does anyone know when the Council is going to be re-surveying post the extension of the S Zone. I know many residents on the roads left out are now keen to join particularly as their roads now house all CPZ households 2nd, 3rd and 4th cars and many non-CPZ households have received tickets for parking in the CPZ/Yellow lines by not removing their cars on time.
The Council suggested they may bring the survey forward. The anti-CPZ campaign group that resisted the CPZ extension at the time, have made the lives of many hundreds, a parking misery. Hopefully this time round they will be laughed and ridiculed and not given the time of day.
Paul at 11 January 2009 12:57 PM
I am not at all surprised about the situation that
has arisen since implementation of the extension
of zone S,
The review is scheduled to take place 6 Month after implementation (about 3 month to go) and by that time the full impact will be known to residents of both camps.
The only certainty is that the review will not produce additional parking spaces nor will it reduce the number of vehicles residents can register to their home address because of the freedom/ rights we enjoy.
Returning to the Morley Road area - Parking Review
there are conflicting statements regarding the designation of proposed bays across Crossovers in
Michael Potter`s letter to residents.
1. …to allow resident/ occupiers of these properties and/or their visitors to park in front of the driveways on display of a valid parking permit.
2. The review established that an approximate additional total of 66 spaces could be created in this area - all of which would be designated for any resident permit holder for zone F. Of this number, 56 would be located across existing driveways.
As for the 31 parking spaces removed by yellow lines I suppose the council and the consultants
work under the premise that parking spaces follow the line of the kerb on bends and junctions and it is legal at present to park nose to tail around the bends and junctions.
Gerhard Schellberg at 11 January 2009 9:05 PM
Sounds like bad news for the shops in East Twickenham very difficult to find a space yesterday when I needed to go to the tile shop
Maeve at 13 January 2009 1:45 PM