PARKING ENFORCEMENT – DON’T FORGET TO VOTE!

CLOSING DATE IS 10 MARCH

The following resolution was agreed without dissent at the TA meeting held on 19 February 2014. Since then Hyde has circulated its final proposals and is asking residents to vote. The TA believes we should vote for Parking Wardens.

“KPE TA is appalled at the way Hyde Southbank has conducted its long drawn out and incoherent Parking Enforcement consultation.

It notes that the Protection of Freedoms Act 2012 banning wheel-clamping took effect on 1 October 2012 and that since that time Hyde Southbank has been collecting money from residents for parking permits without preventing non-permit holders parking on our Estate.

It notes that the TA provided constructive and positive suggestions on how to clarify and improve Hyde’s proposals and that most of these have been ignored. Consequently Hyde has been informed that the TA is no longer able to associate itself with their proposals or its consultation process.

It notes that, at the recent consultation meetings, many residents preferred the ‘private ticketing’ (wardens) option; and that there was strong opposition to barriers being installed at the entrances to the two large courtyards.

This TA therefore agrees

1. To support parking wardens on the basis that:
   
   1. they will ‘self-financing’ (paid for from parking permits and infringement penalties, not from rents or service charges)
      
   2. they will ticket both non-permit/road tax holders and vehicles parked outside a permitted area and/or causing an obstruction
      
   3. that penalty charges shall be at least those charged by Lambeth Council in the surrounding streets
      
   4. that TA representatives will be involved in drawing up the contract specification and selecting the contractor .
      
2. To oppose barriers into the large courtyards (Alverstone/Lockwood/Blades and Key/Blythe) on the grounds that these would substantially discriminate against residents with any kind of mobility problem.
   
3. To support residents in the other blocks who also want barriers and/or individual lockable bollards.
   

    

In addition, we call for:

1. new, well-designed and extensive signage spelling out the Estate’s Parking Rules
   
2. increased use of double yellow lines, cross-hatching and fixed bollards in areas where parking is unsuitable
   
3. a modernised system of issuing parking permits
   
4. a review of visitors’ permits, including the possible introduction of ticket machines
   
5. a review of the provision of free parking on the Estate for Hyde staff and its contractors.”

UPDATE: Residents have voted for wardens – and Hornby and Sherwin will get the barriers that are needed for those blocks.