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Letter 3 Reply
21 August 2001
Plantation Road, Slade Green - Request For More Footway Parking Bays
Dear Mr Tarrant
Thank you for your letter dated 26 July 2001, received by the Council on 13 August 2001, requesting extra footway parking bays in Plantation Road.
Having received your letter I visited Plantation Road to look at the concerns you have raised. I understand there is a great demand for parking in Plantation Road, however, whilst any difficulties in parking is of course regrettable, finding safe and suitable locations to park does remain the responsibility of vehicle owners, not the Council. Whilst I was in Plantation Road I noticed that the vehicles on the east side were parked in the road and were not using the footway parking bays.
I appreciate the concerns you have raised. However, when the Council' s former Traffic and Engineering Services Panel approved the bays in December 1997 the Council installed as many bays on the pavement that met its criteria. The bays stop between ten and twelve metres from the junction with Slade Green Road. This complies with the Highway Code, which recommends that vehicles do not park within ten metres of a junction. The Council generally considers it unsafe to install bays, which encourage motorists to park, nearer to a junction. If motorists choose to park near the junction and they cause an obstruction the Council may have to consider the introduction of waiting restrictions at the junction of Plantation Road and Slade Green Road.
If you wish to appeal against the Penalty Charge Notice (parking ticket) you have recently received you need to contact the Council' s Parking Team on 020 8303 7777 extension 2945 and quote the ' BL' number on the ticket.
I am sorry that I am not able to be more helpful on this occasion. I hope you find the explanation above, as to why the bays were not installed right up to the junction with Slade Green Road, helpful.
Yours sincerely
Linda Jackson
Assistant Engineer