Prospective parking permits

[Regiment]

Local council seem to be canvassing my area asking about setting up parking permits for our road and the neighbouring roads. Not sure how many people are interested but the price being quoted is between £50-£100.

The council started this due to a complaint from a gentleman that lived down the road a few years ago, but he is no longer with us, he’s dead. Ideally, being the owner of 2cars and with no driveways, etc, I’d like to see if I can block this as I’m not going to pay good money for something that should be free I.e. parking outside my house on a public road. Most of the time, there’s plenty of parking spaces but with us being surrounded by a park, 4 schools, a college, and near town, during the mornings and early afternoons, it can presumably get a bit packed out.

Any thoughts?

[Riley Blue]

Regiment said:

Local council seem to be canvassing my area asking about setting up parking permits for our road and the neighbouring roads. Not sure how many people are interested but the price being quoted is between £50-£100.

The council started this due to a complaint from a gentleman that lived down the road a few years ago, but he is no longer with us, he’s dead. Ideally, being the owner of 2cars and with no driveways, etc, I’d like to see if I can block this as I’m not going to pay good money for something that should be free I.e. parking outside my house on a public road. Most of the time, there’s plenty of parking spaces but with us being surrounded by a park, 4 schools, a college, and near town, during the mornings and early afternoons, it can presumably get a bit packed out.

Any thoughts?

We have a simlar scheme, paying £50 a year for a permit to park within 'Zone C', the whole town being divided into several zones. We also pay £10 a year for a visitor's permit i.e. cars visiting and not registered at our address so we swap visitor's permits with our neighbour, use theirs in our second car and everyone's happy.

The area is policed by enforcement officers who do a good job at ticketing muppets who can't read signs advising two hours maximum or residents only - we're also near a college and the students are a bit 'harding of understanding' at times.

As for parking outside your own house being free, though this is not directly outside our door, this is what it was like during term time. All are students' cars:

Edited by Riley Blue on Tuesday 24th October 16:39

Edited by Riley Blue on Wednesday 25th October 09:22

[numtumfutunch]

I can see this from both sides

We used to live in central London and if our road hadnt been controlled it would have been carnage with shops, colleges, commuters etc etc all on our doorstep. Permits were reasonable and vouchers for visitors cheap. There were meters and car parks for the shoppers and commuters which were reasonably priced too.

Now we live in the sticks and had a zone initiated a mile or so from us
Friends living over there were initially for it, although the need was questionable, however over 5y the cost of resident permits has doubled and the cost for visitors risen by an even higher amount.

cheers

[anonymous-user]

All it needs is a 2 hrs maximum parking from 9am until 6pm, that removes most all day parkers.

The only problem is if the locals want to park all day.

Useful though if locals/nimbys have off street parking and really just object to hospital workers/commuters etc parking on a public road near their house

[Riley Blue]

You'd be surprised at the number of drivers who look at a '2hrs maximum' sign and return three to four hours later to find a ticket on their windscreen; it happens several times daily where I live though to be fair, most of those are students. My neighbours and I are more than happy to pay £50 a year for parking permits; it's so much better than the previous free-for-all.

[Motorrad]

50 quid a year eh? It was 80 where I lived. I presume the council w@nkers just pull a number out of their asses rather than reflecting any true cost of administering such a scheme.
If the cost of the permits was fair I'd be in support of it but I fear in many cases it's just another cash cow for corrupt local government and a way of furthering their political agenda (ie extra cost for 'grossly polluting' vehicles).