Paper petition details

Glendor Gardens, NW7

We the residents of Glendor Gardens, NW7 request an application for control parking zone.

Glendor Gardens is a narrow cul de sac residential road. At the end of the road there is a small lane leading to Mill Hill Broadway and Mill Hill Railway Thameslink. On the left hand side of Glendor Gardens is where the residents park. Between the resident’s park cars and the right hand side of the road is the single car’s width access and exit. On the right hand side of Glendor Gardens is a grass verge layby of approx. 3 metres wide with trees. At the end of the grass verge are hedges and metal railing. The other side of the metal railings is a drop of approx. 30 metres which is the M1 motorway.
Our reasons are outlined below.
a. Commuters are parking in Glendor Gardens which is close to Mill Hill Broadway Rail Station causing shortage of parking spaces for residents. Commuters are using Glendor Gardens for free parking.
b. Parents with children in the nearby nursery Whizz Kids are using the grass verge and every available space on the road twice a day as a convenient way to park to drop off their children. During these times, the road becomes fully congested.
c. Impossible to reverse out of our homes. Throughout the day, and often when a vehicle has been left for several days, weeks and months, it is impossible to get in and out of our driveways
d. Heavy goods and services vehicles also parking onto the grass verge layby. They are very heavy, with large wheals and cause severe irreparable damage to the grass on the verge, killing off all possibility of the grass growing back in the summer. In doing so, the grass verge has now become a damaged mud verge.
e. Abandoned vehicles are now severely increasing in number. Glendor Gardens appears to have become a dump site for unwanted, unused vans, cars, and in particular this motorhome/caravan which took 10 months to have removed, only now to return.
f. A three storey Self Storage has been built in Apex Corner which is 500 yards from Glendor Gardens. During building time, everyone working on the site left truck, jeeps, vans and lorries on the verge ruining what grass was left. Equally, shoppers and flat residents from the parade of shops in Apex corner are using Glendor Gardens as a free parking facility.
g. Emergency vehicles, service vehicles, delivery vans, dustbin/waste collections vehicles etc, often cannot come down Glendor Gardens due to the excessive number of vehicles parking on either side of Glendor Gardens at the same time. There is often no access in the road due to this and leaves residents frustrated and angry.
h. Resident’s driveway walls have been driven into and smashed on several occasions and repeatedly. This has been due to cars and lorries reversing onto the pavement with complete disregard for the damage their cause. Several houses have had to repair the damage with their own money. One resident in particular had to rebuilt and replace walls on her driveway 4 times. This is unacceptable.
i. Nearby surrounding roads to Glendor Gardens already have control parking zones, and the non-permit holders of these surrounding roads are using Glendor Gardens for their free parking.
j. Vehicles are often parked across resident’s driveways depriving access into and out of resident’s driveways.
k. This leaves residents in Glendor Gardens frustrated, angry and anxious about the road they live in which has become increasingly unbearable to negotiate access to and from their houses, each week increasing in congestion and damage.
l. House prices in the road have dropped dramatically in the last year, particularly in the last few months. After this follows a series of irresponsible parking of service vehicles. This is off putting leaving Glendor Gardens a potentially neglected and heavily vehicle-burdened.

Attached are 95% Glendor Gardens NW7 resident’s signatures in favour for this application of control parking zone.

On reaching 25 signatures

This Paper petition ran from 15/03/2017 to 20/03/2017 and has now finished.

27 people signed this Paper petition.