Green councillors have been working with residents for a number of years to improve road safety and tackle parking problems in the South Park Ward area (bounded by Eastern Avenue, Whiteknights Road, Church Road and Wykeham Road).
Following the council consultation on the idea of permit parking for the area (which showed a majority in favour of investigating permit parking), council transport planners have produced some concept drawings for consultation showing what a permit parking scheme could look like.
We have input into the concept drawings following the meetings we had with residents. Transport planners have taken some of our contributions on board but unfortunately not all of them.
Have a look at your road and the plans for the area and let us know what you think. The plans are in alphabetical order by road name.
The roads on the west of the Wokingham Road all have fairly standard permit parking with shared use (meaning that visitors can come between 8 AM and 8 PM for up to 2 hours without needing a permit).
Many of the roads between Grange Avenue and Wykeham road have a different sort of permit parking (permit parking beyond this point). With this type of permit parking there are no marked bays and you can park on both sides of the road. However you can’t have shared use (where visitors can come at certain times without needing a permit) with this type of permit parking. Therefore all visitors need a visitors’ permit – you get 2 free books but then have to buy more.
The reason for permit parking beyond this point in many of the roads to the east of the Wokingham Road is council transport planners say the roads are too narrow to have bays on both sides and shared use (free visitor parking at certain times of the day). We disagree with this. If you live in the area you may wish to respond to the consultation saying that you want permit parking bays on both sides with shared use.
The council will be running a consultation on the concept drawings to find out what residents think so the scheme can be updated. I will update this blog post with details when I have them.
As we have said before, if a road is opposed to permit parking we will not impose it against the wishes of residents.
We have also produced a short guide on how permit parking works: http://cllrrobwhite.blogspot.com/p/frequently-asked-questions-about.html
Green councillors care about the area and we will keep working with you to improve road safety and tackle parking problems.
2 comments:
Rob - once again, good job on your side to get this through.
Eastern Avenue parking proposal would be welcome (at least from me!). Some measure of speed reduction measure (as is present in upper Eastern Avenue)would also be very beneficial (please - full width speed bumps only, the small "island" bumps only rip up the bottom of your car and don't reduce speeds......)
One additional thing on Eastern Avenue - traffic is still egressing regularly onto Wokingham Road despite it being illegal, mainly due to the changes made on the junction layout a couple of years ago. This is very dangerous when turning into Eastern Avenue and you don't expect traffic (especially HGVs) to be exiting from that junction. It would be good if you could also raise this to the traffic decision makers also, and signage at the top of E. avenue should be improved to warn traffic (especially lorries) that the road is a cul-de-sac.
many thanks
Rob - once again, good job on your side to get this through.
Eastern Avenue parking proposal would be welcome (at least from me!). Some measure of speed reduction measure (as is present in upper Eastern Avenue)would also be very beneficial (please - full width speed bumps only, the small "island" bumps only rip up the bottom of your car and don't reduce speeds......)
One additional thing on Eastern Avenue - traffic is still egressing regularly onto Wokingham Road despite it being illegal, mainly due to the changes made on the junction layout a couple of years ago. This is very dangerous when turning into Eastern Avenue and you don't expect traffic (especially HGVs) to be exiting from that junction. It would be good if you could also raise this to the traffic decision makers also, and signage at the top of E. avenue should be improved to warn traffic (especially lorries) that the road is a cul-de-sac.
many thanks
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