View Full Version : decriminalisation of parking
chillitt
18-11-2006, 04:51 PM
the council is bringing another marvelous parking scheme to warwick. oh, joy. briefly... pay and display on street parking, with permits for residents, over the whole town centre. this will do wonders for people trying to park in the town centre. how have they achieved this masterpiece? by banning anyone who works in warwick from parking any closer to the centre than the racecourse, or st nicks park. genius. i run a shop in the town centre, and, due to our excellent customer service, we will deliver heavier items to the customer, so its nice if the transport isnt too far away. not any more! the chap on the stand in the market place informed me that i should; deliver after hours(in my own time..) park further away, pay more, oh, and the business should pay for the season ticket. so to all my customers, sorry, service just got worse,and prices will be going up. but at least you will be able to park right outside. :mad: yours wholey unimpressed of warwick
Once again we're all reaping the rewards of the government handing matters of parking over to the local councils. In the name of 'better parking' or 'better traffic control' we've seen all towns of Warwickshire punish their local residents and workers with increasingly ridiculous and greedy schemes.
It's definately time we started standing up to these councils.
chillitt
18-11-2006, 06:07 PM
i tried today.. i think i may have been a little harsh....:rolleyes:
i think i may be harsh with them again...
Unregistered
18-11-2006, 08:44 PM
Hope they get it better than Stratford.
The district council were unable to state that
"To get 20 minutes free parking, you MUST display a free ticket from the machine"
in plain English, so just decided it was easier to charge...
chillitt
18-11-2006, 09:07 PM
apparently its exactly the same as stratford (even though they claim to be at the consultation phase....:rolleyes: )
Madhatter
19-11-2006, 11:35 PM
Lost again. don't you hve long stay car parks for shop owners on the edge so that shoppers, your customers that buy fro,m you can park in the nearer short stay car parks? I also dont get why you can't just park outside to load, theres no reason to stop loading unloading for the whole of opening hours, the centre part of opening hours is adequate for any town centre.
chillitt
20-11-2006, 01:16 PM
ok.. if i can park a sensible distance from the shop, i can 'pop out' with a delivery as and when the customer asks. if i have to park the other side of town, then that adds 40 minutes or so to the time i am gone. i am the only one there most days. yes i can still load outside the shop, but its no longer viable to close the shop long enough to do that.
it would appear the council have done some serious indepth research and found there is exactly the number of spaces in the town centre required for visitors, and none left for anyone else (except council employees who have a private car park:rolleyes: ) ?That or this is another ill thought out plan from the masters of ill thought out plans. (and by the way, did that jag in the loading bay all day saturday really belong to the man telling me where i could park???:mad: :mad: :mad: )
n.b. my objection to this is in no way related to a desire to walk as short a distance as possible. no matter where i park my car, i walk my dogs for better part of 2 hours a day.
Shizara
20-11-2006, 09:23 PM
You will just have to invent a teleport and you won't need a delivery van - thereby saving on running costs and potential parking tickets. Everything could be teleported and whilst you are at it you could teleport yourself to work and back, saving on shoes by not having to walk from a distant carpark and a saving on patience no longer needing to weave around the general public that mill around like Brown's cows on a country road heading for a fresh field and munching the grass on the side of the road on the way. This means of moving goods and transportation might qualify for greenie benefits too. :whistling:
chillitt
21-11-2006, 09:20 AM
You will just have to invent a teleport and you won't need a delivery van - thereby saving on running costs and potential parking tickets. Everything could be teleported and whilst you are at it you could teleport yourself to work and back, saving on shoes by not having to walk from a distant carpark and a saving on patience no longer needing to weave around the general public that mill around like Brown's cows on a country road heading for a fresh field and munching the grass on the side of the road on the way. This means of moving goods and transportation might qualify for greenie benefits too. :whistling:
its a good idea, but i might wear it out teleporting the council somewhere 'nice'....:rolleyes:
Chillit, you really have to lodge an objection. The Chamber of Trade is fighting hard to get revisions to this loony plan but the more individuals that also write with objections the more weight will be given. Like the ill-starred traffic plan of a couple of years ago it can be changed - but only if people stand up and shout!! Don't rely on others, get a letter in by 8th December - it could make a difference.
chillitt
28-11-2006, 09:28 PM
the letter has been lodged... oh, yes....:cool: it struck me the other day, how on earth is the florist supposed to run a business?:confused:
Excellent, Chillitt, and encourage other businesses round about to do the same. From what I gather the response has been very angry so maybe there will be a re-think!
chillitt
29-11-2006, 01:54 PM
toad, that emplies they thought in the first place, but its good news all the same:rolleyes:
optrex
29-11-2006, 09:44 PM
Chillit, what sort of goods do you sell?
chillitt
29-11-2006, 10:17 PM
Chillit, what sort of goods do you sell?
(plug mode on)doors, and all the fittings, kitchen furniture, toilets, all manner of (really really heavy and big) things for old houses.. all done properly.. theres a link pops up at the top of the page occasionally (end plug..:rolleyes: _)
Steve W
30-11-2006, 08:10 AM
I'm not a driver myself, but I certainly sympathise. Time and time again the local authorities are punishing car users for the shortcomings of the people in charge of managing their budget. Whenever the local councils are strapped for cash, it's always the people with cars etc that are punished for it.
The people who control the budget seem to have no idea on prioritisation. I've always said that the people should have more of a say on what their money is spent on. My priorities would be schemes such:
1. Ensuring street lighting is prominent on ALL streets, icluding smal alleyways and back streets.
2. Better parking, NOT CHARGED.
3. More traffic wardens and police presence on the streets. In my opinion the police in Leamington are dreadful and do not do a very good job.
4. Improved pavements in deprived areas. When you are walking on some pavements, without knowing it you can stumble and injure yourself becsause of potholes or raised areas of pavements. This is a regualr occurrence for many in the old town.
5. Permanent bollards every 3 to 4 feet all the way up the parade to stop parking on pavements.
These are just a few, but are ones that just get overlooked.
If you guys want to start a campaign, I'll supply you with a website like I have to SV. :)
Food for thought.
This may or may not of be interest to you Chillitt, looks like they might be having a rethink on Warwick Parking.
BBC NEWS | England | Coventry/Warwickshire | More consultation about parking (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/coventry_warwickshire/6322295.stm)
chillitt
01-02-2007, 07:56 PM
This may or may not of be interest to you Chillitt, looks like they might be having a rethink on Warwick Parking.
BBC NEWS | England | Coventry/Warwickshire | More consultation about parking (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/coventry_warwickshire/6322295.stm)
well, that's a start, i suppose...:rolleyes:
although if i was being churlish, i'd call it a think, rather than a rethink..;)
Heh, it's a start I suppose. ;)
Steve W
02-02-2007, 10:39 AM
I have a mate who works in town planning. I'll have to ask him what the heck is going on ;)
chillitt
02-02-2007, 10:50 AM
Steve, I dont think they know....:(
Steve W
02-02-2007, 10:58 AM
How very true LOL :(
Madhatter
02-02-2007, 10:06 PM
3 traffic wardens an 11 car park inspectors to 30 attendants!
30 why do they need 30 and wh's paying for them?
cathidaw
08-02-2007, 12:40 AM
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Parking costs
I went to Banbury last week. Parking costs are 30p for 15minutes
Even at Matalan and TKMax .
It's not worth going now . I m not surprised that Tesco and Morrisons are getting all the trade, and expanding into designer clothes and larger stuff LIKE COMPUTERS ETC.
Incidentally why should anyone pay to park at any hospital.
The new state of the art Walsgrave which is already closing a few of it's departments and wards will surely go the way of the old one. I worked there when it was built and it has had hardly any real maintainence since then.
Typical of Coventry actually. Most of the old buildings which are costing millions to restore were the result of neglect by numerous councils.
Kirby House for one .They left it so long only the facade is original .Ican remember when it was habitable.
AND --the old Grammar school ---it is disgraceful how 'they' have allowed it to rot. In any other town or city it would be a very precious building
The old fire station --now a restaurant, could have been a cultural asset too. Used as possibly a gallery or some kind of museum.
Or even a parade of exclusive boutiques.
Some years ago it was destined to be a venue for individual traders--craft workers and such---but the council were so greedy
they allowed anyone to apply , and we ended up with a load of tat merchants.
What visitor to Coventry wanted to get off a bus or coach and see stalls set up outside-near the bus station. piled up with mountains of toilet rolls and cheap stuff on show.
When it closed, I wrote to the council to suggest more upmarket stalls would have helped .
Their spokesman said, "we've tried it and it didn't work, so it's shut."
It was shut for years and gradually rotted away.
Now its a glorified posh cafe and we did n't need another one.
WE HAVE GOT WHAT THE COUNCIL THINK WE DESERVE.
This should have been a a new thread Ithink--gone off the parking track a bit havent I!
Rambling late at night is not agood idea.
Madhatter
08-02-2007, 02:52 AM
If you let bog roll sellers on your not likely to get quality stalls duh. Who wants to sell fine foods and crafts next toilet rolls, who goes shopping for the two together?.
I only go Coventry shopping on a sunday. May go this Sunday actually, unless they've started to charge on Sunday too that is.
Now decrim is about to hit us it's really importnat that we TELL all our visitors and locals about the changes so that they don't get fined for either not paying the parking charges or they over-stay their time.
The quickest way for us to lose trade is for people to get stung by our local money-making council.
TELL everybody by word of mouth and leaflets!
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