You may have seen the article in the Post last week about our successful campaign to get RBC to reduce parking problems for residents living around Hexham Road. The Council's initiative will focus on parking problems that occur around the Community Centre at weekends.
For several months Labour councillors and officers denied there was a shortage of parking for residents. This isn't what my constituents have been telling me - I've had a number of emails and phone calls about the issue. Parking on grass verges and pavements is a symptom of a wider problem with lack of road space in an area which now has more cars than it was built to accomodate.
I am in the process of a setting up a meeting with Council officers from Transport and Housing departments to look at the wider problems of lack of parking for residents where land belongs to RBC i.e. housing estates. It sounds technical but basically it means that some bits of land are not 'public highway' and so normal parking restrictions such as yellow lines (and residents parking) cannot be introduced or enforced by RBC: not great if you are a resident and you want to park vaguely near your home.
Anyway, hopefully we've started the ball rolling and this issue will now get the attention it deserves.
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