ePetition details

Request for Parking Permits for Flat Residents of Mead Close

We the undersigned petition the council to enforce Parking Permits for flat residents and parking restrictions for non-residents.

Residents of the flats of Mead Close are unable to use the parking space allocated to the block of flats. Cars, sometimes untaxed from the surrounding houses (who already benefit of parking spaces) park for extended amount of time or in areas of the parking that block the residents to drive away.

This situation forces the flat residents to park in the neighbouring streets away from their property which should not happen.

We ask for parking permits to be re-introduced for the flat residents.

This ePetition ran from 14/08/2020 to 11/09/2020 and has now finished.

11 people signed this ePetition.

Council response

You very kindly organised a recent petition requesting a parking enforcement scheme to be introduced on Mead Close.

As the land in question is owned by the Housing Department it is, as far as parking enforcement is concerned, considered as private land so we need specific agreements in place to set up any scheme.

I have discussed this with my colleagues in Parking and am pleased to say that this scheme will be considered for formal consultation and design. However, my colleagues have advised me that due to the long list of other projects already being considered there could be a significant delay in starting this project.

This is the case for a number of other roads on Housing land and we are currently investigating if it is possible to introduce a short term, interim solution using a private parking contractor. There are some draw-backs to having a private enforcement scheme in place so we need to make sure we don’t fix one problem only to create another. Once we have more information about whether this is possible we will update you further.