The local residents are allocated a small amount of bays on a first come, first serve basis. Often meaning that parking spaces are difficult to to acquire. Particularly for those who may be working throughout the day and come home late in the evenings when most parking space users are already home.
The parking restrictions set in place disallow for families to even stop off for a short time to even do basics things such as dropping off shopping.
Residents were continuously misinformed by Optivo/ Southern Housing association, who led us to believe that parking restrictions would not be set in place prior to residential vote of which did not take place.
Whilst some of the residents were informed of the changes and issued permits, others were left unaware without permits and were told by the parking company not to park near their homes or face receiving a tickets. After weeks of continually calling optics, we finally received permits. As of June, 2024 residents are now receiving tickets costing hundreds of pounds for using those very same permits.
Private residents have had Ballard installed into their parking spaces, which naturally restricts others from parking into their space. With full use of said Ballards, it would be impossible for visitors or other residents to park in their spaces, meaning that the inconvenience to them is lesser than the inconvenience to those who just simply cannot park anywhere.
The NPC parking restrictions set in place will see the residents of Bowen Drive being issued a £100 fine each time they even so much as stop to unload their cars of groceries etc. The residential street is also home to many lone parent families with small children. Therefore meaning that, should there be no parking spaces, they may have to use local roads during the times outside of restrictions.
The local restrictions on nearby roads are 8:30 am to 18:00. Therefore, meaning that parents would need to ensure their vehicles are moved within those hours.
Please help the residents by signing this petition for Southern Housing to consider putting an end to this unplanned, inconvenient parking enforcement
