Paper petition details
Petition against parking restrictions in Lower Strand
Having not received a response, a week after the deadline given,
I called into Highways Maintenance again to be told that there had
been a response – which I was not contacted about.
The response reads that “Highways have confirmed that they
have not installed or made any changes to Lower Strand so any
signage may have been erected by a private parking company on
behalf of the land owners.” My assumption is that the signage
has been held to be lawful which I highly doubt it is. The signage
is in a council owned area, in front of people’s homes (many
of which are council houses) preventing them from parking there
– this means they park further up in front of houses
belonging to others thus causing a chain reaction.
This same company has previously done the same and when a member of
my family called in to get a permit, we were told we couldn’t
as we were not ‘residents of the area’ despite being
so, this is the same case now with all the neighbours I have spoken
to. The last time this happened the council came and removed the
signage as it was clearly unlawful so you understand my confusion
as to why the same isn’t happening now.
We understand there are developments in the area, but I would like
to draw your attention to the fact that the signage is directly
above a sign for Lower Strand which also reads “London
Borough of Barnet”. These developments should not be taking
away from those who live in this area, we pay taxes and service
charge and make up this community.
Furthermore, the workers involved in the developments are also
using the very limited parking we have remaining. The minimal
parking is a result of previous developments where parking was
removed to build flats and fewer spaces than were moved were
produced to act as replacement. This does not even cover the
parking they removed – let alone introduce parking for the
increasing number of households in the area. As a community we are
unable to fathom who this parking is for since the bays are now
always completely empty but our pavements and double yellow lines
are full.
The restrictions are an onerous and cannot have been incorporated
into the area as there has been no notice, signature or previous
conduct, AEG v Logic Resource Ltd [1996] CLC 265 (CA) held that a
clause cannot be incorporated where not reasonably brought to
one’s attention. The people living in this area were not once
told about such changes which would be affecting them, it is in
fact onerous to prevent people from parking in the area they live
in, look after and pay service charge for. Additionally, the
council was to be restricting parking so that residents would be
able to park.
I have also attached images showing the signage, the sign reading
that Lower Strand is Barnet’s property and another picture
clearly showing that the bays are completely empty and are
currently only acting to resident’s inconvenience.
This Paper petition was received on 01/08/2018.
86 people signed this Paper petition.