Plans to extend residents' parking scheme approved (From The Argus)
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Plans to extend residents' parking scheme in Brighton approved
5:10pm Wednesday 16th January 2013 in News By Ben Leo, reporter
Plans to extend a residential parking zone in Brighton have been approved at recent council meeting.
Brighton and Hove City Council’s Transport Committee met on Tuesday to consider plans to extend the Area J Residents Parking Scheme in the London Road Station area.
The committee voted 5 to 3 in favour of the plans.
The council carried out two public consultations in relation to the plans.
In London Road Station North, 58% or 385 respondents supported the extension of the parking scheme.
In Round Hill, 56% or 239 respondents supported the extension of the parking scheme.
The meeting concluded that there was “positive opinion from the majority of respondents” and that plans to extend the scheme should go ahead.
Conservative Councillor Graham Cox said: "I think we have now reached the limit of controlled parking schemes in the city. Unless there is an overwhelming case for the need of further schemes then I would hope this is the end of it.
"The results of the public consultations were not too convincing. All the schemes will do is push the parking problem onto the next road and the next, and so on."
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Parkaman
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5:43pm Wed 16 Jan 13
Parkaman
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5:49pm Wed 16 Jan 13
Bt'n-breezy
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6:00pm Wed 16 Jan 13
Parkaman
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6:06pm Wed 16 Jan 13
taman
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6:06pm Wed 16 Jan 13
Parkaman
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6:07pm Wed 16 Jan 13
Fight_Back
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6:13pm Wed 16 Jan 13
Bt'n-breezy wrote:Really ???? There's always plenty of parking in the area when I drive through it at any time of day or night. There are already sensible restrictions around the park which work. No doubt the Greens will roll out the Preston Park model though thus denying people travelling a distance use of the park.
The Hove Park area needs a permit-parking scheme badly.
Parkaman
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6:14pm Wed 16 Jan 13
Parkaman
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6:16pm Wed 16 Jan 13
Parkaman
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6:17pm Wed 16 Jan 13
Parkaman
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Parkaman
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6:22pm Wed 16 Jan 13
Parkaman
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6:25pm Wed 16 Jan 13
Fight_Back
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6:38pm Wed 16 Jan 13
Parkaman wrote:You might want to re-read your post - YOU mentioned the Hove Park area - you know the area off the Old Shoreham Road with a massive park ?
FighT Back ....what Park ?????....my god it says alot ...do you know wher you are ??? this is Roundhill.."mos
t people may laugh but this guy is driving....
"Most people might laugh but this guy is allowed to use a computer and keyboard" !
Parkaman
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6:50pm Wed 16 Jan 13
Parkaman
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6:52pm Wed 16 Jan 13
george smith
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6:54pm Wed 16 Jan 13
Parkaman wrote:But the Greens love travellers vans and support drug use.
Oh By the way Taman couldnt care if i can park my car ...would you like a drug dealing 4 metre van outside for 1 month ?? then it moves 20 ft down the rd ....
Parkaman
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6:54pm Wed 16 Jan 13
ponse !!!!
Fight_Back
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6:54pm Wed 16 Jan 13
Parkaman wrote:Ha ha - enjoy your champers !!!!!
Many apologies Afight Back its the Champagne celebrations of pushing the SCUM of our streets....
Parkaman
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6:55pm Wed 16 Jan 13
Parkaman
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6:57pm Wed 16 Jan 13
Parkaman
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Parkaman
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Parkaman
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Parkaman
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7:25pm Wed 16 Jan 13
HJarrs
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9:19pm Wed 16 Jan 13
Personally, I am a little uneasy about the beggar your neighbour roll out of controlled parking because, despite what Councillor Cox says (I seem to remember the last Conservative administration rolling out CPZs!) there will be more CPZs as people clamour to park outside their houses. Once Hanover goes, Maxwell's Ghost will be screaming for one in Coombe Rd! I find it odd to walk down some streets near the city centre in the daytime, almost empty of cars that were once rammed.
Correct me if I am wrong, but if the whole of B&H becomes CPZ areas will not many people have cut off their nose to spite their own face as they will not be able to park where they did previously in other areas of the city, which may make the journey by car unfeasible? I suppose this may lead to a lot fewer cars in the city, but I am not one for forcing people out of their cars. I would much rather we provide the facilities to encourage change over time change such as car club cars as alternative to ownership, cyclelanes for those not too stuck in their ways to change and improvements to public transport.
Where there are CPZs, I would like the council adjust the annual fee based on size of car and emissions. Say, Smart car size under 100g/km £50 a year, 4x4 gas guzzling tank £250 a year. That would only penalise a few people who penalise the rest of us.
nosolution
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9:22pm Wed 16 Jan 13
What about hard pressed working families?Try to think of others for a change.If there is a problem with a drug dealing van then call the police.That is what they are there for.The committee vote narrowly scraped through,I really hope no paws were greased in the process,..
Maxwell's Ghost
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10:53pm Wed 16 Jan 13
Then the rates went up to £3.50 an hour so these bays are now empty all day and all night and the vans, lorries, flatbed lorries and small buses are now parked in my street. A Transit and a bus are both parked on the pavement.
If traders, bus companies need their vehicles, all this council has managed to do it displace vehicles.
Even a 6th form student could work that out but this council seems to struggle with the basics of town planning.
And HJarrs, many of the cars parked in free residential areas are commuters into Brighton and Hove who use the streets as a park and ride.
In the summer we get hotel folk parking up some very nice cars and unloading cases and then cabs collecting them to take them into town.
The lack of a coherent transport strategy is astonishing but when we have a green council which has one of the worst rcycling services in the UK you can't expect them to get to grips with more complex issues.
There are two recycling centres in the city, both close at 4pm in the week, the one in Hove closes at lunchtime on Saturday sending all the vehicles across town to Wilson Avenue, where on arrival the sign states: no trailers at this site, go to Hove.
The council's website lists the buses which take you to the sites, but the drivers are told to refuse customers carrying any waste.
It's beggars belief that recycling is a basic service and this city is decades behind most authorities.
Instead of fannying around in the vanity projects which the Greens believe get them brownie points with the eco media, they should get to grips with basic services.
It's shameful.
HJarrs
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9:13am Thu 17 Jan 13
s&k
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2:18pm Thu 17 Jan 13
Maxwell's Ghost
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2:55pm Thu 17 Jan 13
They aren't. Today we have a story of a lady being sexually assaulted on a bus in the Steine and trains delayed yet again by a fire and rail fare increases of more than five per cent.
Wake up man. You seem totally oblivious to what's blocking getting people out of cars.
Until this council takes a bold step and attempts to solve park and ride no one believes its claim to be Eco minded. Instead it funds an eyesore structure on the seafront which will attract day trippers from Essex who will drive here.
And as someone said earlier this week check out the cost of bringing a family to Brighton by rail.
All this council is doing is moving vehicles about and pushing families to Worthing leaving the city with bed sits and students. We are becoming like Hastings.
Parkaman says...
5:25pm Wed 16 Jan 13