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Use this forum if you have a comment or question about residents parking permits or residential visitor parking.
Should you wish to contribute, please use the following email: parkingforum@portsmouthcc.gov.uk.
Subject: Angerstein Road Area Residents Parking Scheme Proposals
Date: 27/09/2008
Comment: The new proposed parking scheme in the North End area has been badly thought out, as a resident of the east side of North End Avenue I will not be able to park on the west side of North End Avenue or surrounding areas, only yards from my house, but people who live on the west side will be free to park on the east side.
The Council should either have a scheme for the whole area or nothing at all.
As an engineer who very regularly arrives home late at night it will be virtually impossible to park legally in the area.
This bad planning has incensed myself and lots of fellow residents and I will do all in my power to have this proposal changed or scraped.
I believe there is not a huge parking problem in the area as there is always a space within 100 metres at most times of the day.
Please use some common sense.
AP – Nelson, Portsmouth
Response: The proposals you refer to are currently out for formal consultation. We have therefore registered your email as objection to the proposals.
The current situation is that an insufficient number of residents to the north and east sides of Gladys Avenue voted in favour in the recent survey to justify the City Council proceeding with a scheme in that area.
Should a decision on the first part of the proposals, where there was support, be made to proceed with the introduction of the area, your area can be reconsidered in the future should sufficient residents request it.
Subject: Residents Parking Schemes
Date: 18/09/2008
Comment: I feel that the residents parking permit scheme is a total con and rather than being implemented to assist residents in having spaces to park their cars it is simply a fund raising exercise by the council.
The reason I say this is because I am a resident of a scheme currently in operation. Unfortunately due to the manner of my employment I am not able to take the same car home every day. In view of this I try and keep my car within the allowed time limits as I do not have time to try and arrange an alternative permit every time I drive a different car. On the single occasion that I failed to move the car, I received a ticket.
I therefore decided to explain my situation to the Parking Service as I felt that surely they would understand my position and that I am not trying to get something for nothing as I am actually a resident in the road.
Suffice to say the Parking Service failed to understand my situation and I have to pay the fine. As I have not been taking a residents space I can only surmise that the service is being operated to make money from the long suffering tax payers and residents.
Why can’t permits be allocated to the house, not the car. I would have felt that it was irrelevant what the car was as long as it was linked to a particular residents permit.
Another £25 for Portsmouth City Councils ever increasing funds.
MJ – Cosham, Portsmouth
Response: We note from our system that you have a residents parking permit for a vehicle which was issued on production of a letter from your company. However, it would appear from your forum submission that there are a number of occasions when you have different vehicles. We would be grateful if you could let us know approximately how many different vehicles you are likely to have over a period of say three months and we can then give consideration to a permit which you could use in more than one vehicle.
Unfortunately, it is not possible for a permit to be issued to a property, due to abuse of permits in residents parking areas, it is a requirement that a permit has a vehicle registration on it, unless there are exceptional circumstances, and this vehicle normally has to be registered to the resident at their home address, which is in a residents parking scheme. We do obviously accept that there are situations such as yours where you drive in effect, company cars which cannot be registered to you and therefore separate consideration can be given to assisting you.
Subject: Angerstein Road - Residents Parking Scheme
Date: 11/09/2008
Comment: I am enquiring as to what is occurring with this scheme, as we have been surveyed on two occasions now, once in January 2008 and once in May 2008 and we still don’t have permit parking.
I, for one, would like to park somewhere near my property not one or two streets down all because of work vehicles and shoppers which take up all the road. We are having people park their works vehicles in our street overnight and all weekend because where they live is a parking permit area and they do not want to pay for a business vehicle.
On top of this most owners of works vehicles have one or two cars of their own and with limited parking this also doesn’t help. These are not the only problem as you get people taking up two spaces with their car because they can’t drive to a standard whereby they can get out of a reasonably sized space.
I think parking permits have been shown to be successful in other areas of Portsmouth, so the sooner the better please!
GT – Nelson, Portsmouth
Response: The proposals for the Angerstein Road area residents parking scheme were advertised in The News on the 1st September 2008 and are presently being advertised on yellow notices on lamp posts in the area. These proposals will be advertised for the legal period of 21-days and is known as the public consultation stage.
All responses received during the public consultation stage will then be included into a report and submitted to the Cabinet Member for Traffic and Transportation where a decision will be made. If the proposals are approved the Parking Service can then begin to arrange for signs and lines to be put in place and permit applications to be sent to all residents that will come within the residents parking scheme.
The Parking Service advises residents to submit their views on the proposals whether in favour or against, contact details can be found on the yellow notices on street. This will ensure that residents views are included into the final report and that residents are also kept up to date with the progress of the proposals.
Subject:
Date: 26/08/2008
Comment: I wish to add my disgust at this increase, had the cost been correctly identified before the original poll I would have voted against.
I demand that either the fee is reduced to no more than £20 per annum or that the poll is repeated.
FL – St Thomas, Portsmouth
Response: The decision to raise the price of residents parking permits was taken at the council’s full budget meeting in February of this year. The price of these permits has remained the same since the introduction of residents parking in the area in 2003.
As with most things prices have gone up, some considerably since 2003. We do not consider it a tax as it costs more to operate the residents parking schemes than the income derived from them. With the first permit free (the vast majority of councils do not have this concession) we feel it still offers value.
When residents parking schemes were first introduced in Portsmouth in 1999 it was at the price charged presently, it was then reduced in 2001 and has now only just gone back up to the previous level.
Subject: Parking Permit Increase
Date: 25/08/2008
Comment: We have just had our renewal for parking permits for me and my wife. As you know the first one is free, the second one we have to pay for. This one way only £25 last year, I see that it has now been put up to £50. Why have the Elected Members of the Budget Council put this up to £50 as I would like to know why.
I think it is a rip off the Council doing this, what are we paying road tax for. Over the last two years we have given the council £100. It was bad that it was £25, but putting it up to £50 is a con.
LS – Fratton, Portsmouth
Response: Please refer to response to Parking Forum submission below.
