On 04/05/2021 06:32 pm, alan_m wrote:

On 04/05/2021 18:12, T i m wrote:

The resident permit thing wasn't voted in by the locals and I'm not
sure if anything else is in the works.

A good idea some people said until they discovered the financial cost of
the permit, the number of permits would be limited to one per household
and limited to the number of parking spaces and not the number of
dwellings, for some it came as a shock that it didn't guarantee a space
outside their home and those without a permit could not park in other
more distant surrounding streets because of the proposed resident
parking restrictions there.

I believe around my way no planning permission is given for houses to be
converted to two or more flats unless there is provision for off road
parking.

....quite right too. Adequate (and realistic) off-street car-parking
should be the one of the first things considered by planning
authorities, with the law being changed so that appeals against refusal
may not succeed unless that requirement (as a minimum) has been
satisfied to the letter of the law.

[* "Realistic" meaning at least matched to the likely number of vehicles
modern households own or or use.]