The Wokingham Road area permit parking consultation is now available online – link at the bottom of this post. If you live in the proposed permit parking area you will get a paper version of the consultation through your letterbox. We are holding a public meeting for people to come along, find out more and ask questions.
Public meeting details below:
When: Thursday, January 25 starting at 8 PM
Where: Alfred Sutton primary school, 148 Wokingham Rd, Reading RG6 1JR. In the community room.
Everyone who lives in the area is welcome. The deadline for the consultation is February 2 2018.
We believe though that the best way to start to tackle road safety and parking problems in the area is to introduce permit parking. If you want to get street emails on issues like this then email me: rob@readinggreenparty.org.uk
Thanks to Google for the map.
The red lines on the map above show roads which have permit parking in east Reading. You can see that the Wokingham Road area is surrounded. The overspill from these permit parking zones, especially the newly introduced Hospital and University zone is what has caused a worsening of parking problems. These issues start at Hamilton Road, which has recently done a survey showing 85% of people are in favour of permit parking, and head east.
Your Green Party councillors (Josh Williams, Brenda McGonigle and myself) have long been working on this issue. When we surveyed residents about permit parking across the area recently, over 60% said they were in favour of permit parking. This support was either outright or if nearby roads decided to have it.
We believe urgent action is needed on the roads most acutely impacted such as Hamilton Road. There have already been a number of consultations in this area and we believe we could go straight to the design phase. We believe an areawide solution – most likely a combination of permit parking and double yellow lines – is best so as not to simply knock at the problem on to the next road. But if an areawide solution can’t be achieved then we must help those roads most in need with smaller schemes.
We have already held a number of meetings in roads and we have a few more in the pipeline. If you have been to one of the smaller road meetings then you don’t need to come to this meeting.
We have produced a frequently asked questions on how permit parking works.
A link to the consultation and supporting documentation can be found below. Please either respond online or by post to the one which will come through the letterbox: https://consult.reading.gov.uk/dens/3bb628e4/
We care about the local area keep working with you to improve it.
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