ePetition details

We would like to raise the matter that the current CPZ zoning arrangements are failing the residents of Edmunds Walk, N2. The residents of Edmunds Walk can rarely find parking near their homes.

On Edmunds Walk we are extremely close to East Finchley tube station and the Archer Academy. Some of the properties on the road have limited off-road parking, and there are a few homes with garages, however, the majority of properties rely on street parking for their vehicles and for parking for their visitors. It is pertinent to note that creating new off-street parking by the residents is not an option, due to restrictions by the Hampstead Garden Suburb Trust on maintaining the street scene.

Edmunds Walk sits within parking Zone M and people living nearby are taking advantage of this. People living within Zone M, rather than walking, are driving the short distances from their homes on Brim Hill and other nearby roads to park on Edmunds Walk and the lower part of Deansway for the entire day whilst they go to work into London on the tube; this is despite the presence of a large and low-cost car park at East Finchley station. Driving these short distances from other parts of Zone M is both environmentally unfriendly and also adds to unnecessary traffic and congestion on the roads at peak times.

Edmunds Walk is effectively treated as a free parking facility (for the tube station) by Zone M CPZ permit holders, who work in town. This completely defeats the purpose of CPZs. Parking availability for residents is further degraded by parents parking to pick up and drop off, for the Archer Academy site next to the tube station, whereby, parents are waiting on the residents parking spaces for pick up and drop offs.

The above is having a severe impact on the availability of parking in the road for residents, particularly on weekdays. Frequently all available parking is taken by8.15am, not coming free (if at all) until 7pm or later. This means that for residents there is rarely parking in the street near our homes, which clearly goes against the point of having a CPZ in the first place. The lack of parking for Edmunds Walk residents puts an unnecessary strain, particularly for its residents with young children, for older residents and those that care for older residents.

We observe that parking is available on Vivian Way, Brim Hill and other nearby Zone M roads, but Edmunds walk in particular and the lower part of Deansway is always full, this supports our assertion above that Zone M residents just want to park as close to the station as possible irrespective of the impact on residents who live close to the station.

This ePetition ran from 06/10/2017 to 06/10/2017 and has now finished.

25 people signed this ePetition.