Hi Andrew"From what you say it does look like having a CPZ imposed is going to affect your Grandmother's visitors, but where does she live ( I'm only asking because I had a quick look at the map of CPZs in LBHF and couldn't find any bits of the borough that aren't already in a zone)."My grandmother lives in the zone V extention."Is there a parking problem there currently or not? If there is, then putting in a CPZ would surely make parking easier for residents, and would make parking easier for visitors ( since there would be fewer of them as you won't have any 'visitors' that are taking advantage of the free parking)"There weren't any parking problems until all other surrounding roads were CPZ'd - the ripple effect I was talking about in my previous post. (Residents in her road continued to vote against CPZ). But even now, I manage to get a space when I visit her during the week."For what it's worth, I think £90 is a bit on the high side to pay for parking permits, and I think that CPZs are 50-60% about generating revenue, and 40-50% about prioritising parking for residents."£90 is disgusting, especially as it was £50 the previous year. I still disagree with you about council motives behind CPZ, so we will have to differ on that one - I still believe it is yet another unfair 'tax' on motorists."I think your comparison about shopping car parks and paying much more for parking in residential roads needs to be considered along with the fact that the shopping car parks were specifically built to accomodate shoppers cars, while the residential roads weren't."As I have stated, there are no facilities to attract parking in my grandmother's road. The houses were built in the 1920's & I agree few people had cars then, so the roads were originally built for horses & carts (although by the 1920's many houses were being built with garages). However, things have evolved & all (or most!) drivers pay road tax to maintain roads. It doesn't cost the council anything for us to park our cars in the road, but it is a great way for them to make money out of us."To be honest, I think the fairest situation would be if residents were allowed to buy visitors tickets that they could give to their visitors to use, while keeping Pay and Display for other people that park there, all the time ensuring that there's no abuse of the Visitors tickets. This last thing is the thing I think would be tricky!"If, as the council would like us to believe, the whole point of the CPZ is to control parking because residents are worried about parking space, then surely it wouldn't be in residents interests to abuse visitors tickets? (i.e. if they really have a problem parking then it would only be making it worse for them?) Interesting that the council think residents want CPZ so much but are likely to abuse the system! Speaks volumes!
Lynn Clark ● 7104d