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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.

Wandsworth introduced resident parking many moons ago. In a democratic way
- sort of - with referendums. But carefully grouped areas where there was
a problem with say commuter parking in one part, but not another. If you
had commuter parking in your street, you might be happy to pay for it to
be banned. In another, some way off, where it didn't happen you were
forced to pay for effectively nothing. And of course your permit only
applied to your local area.

Some London boroughs have a resident parking scheme that allows you to
park anywhere in that borough.

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.

On a relatively recent development round here, Wandsworth stopped them
providing one space per house or flat. As that encouraged people to have a
car.

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