Deadline Looms For Responses To CPZ Consultation

Make your views known on controlled parking for Riverside

The deadline for making your views known about the introduction of a CPZ in Riverside is 4 August. The council is conducting its formal statutory consultation on the issue which has been debated locally for several years.

The general effect of the Parking Places Order would be to introduce a new controlled parking zone (CPZ) in the Chiswick Riverside area which would operate Mondays to
Fridays 10am-12pm.

The CPZ will consist of resident permit bays and shared use bays which will allow business & resident permit holders and payment by telephone which will be charged at £1.20 per 30 minutes.

The streets which will have proposed parking
bays to be included in the CPZ are listed in the Schedule document.

This area incorporates Burnaby Crescent, Burnaby Gardens, Compton Crescent, Dean Close, Fauconberg Road, Florence Road, Gordon
Road, Grove Park Terrace (between railway and Fauconberg Road), Hazledene Road,
Nightengale Close, St Mary’s Grove, St Thomas’s Road, Sutton Court Road (between Elmwood
Road and Grove Park Bridge), Whitehall Gardens, Whitehall Park Road and Wolseley
Gardens.

The CPZ will operate Mondays to Fridays 10am -12pm (noon) and will be
combination of shared use and resident parking bays. The intention of the CPZ is to remove all day non-residential parking and to increase the parking provisions for residents and their visitors.

The CPZ will also include ‘single and double yellow line’ waiting restrictions at road junctions and other strategic locations where parking is
deemed to be obstructive or unsafe.

Following consultations in Riverside ward, Hounslow Council last year decided to add more streets to the area of controlled parking in Grove Park.

The proposed large developments near Chiswick, including the Lionel Road football stadium in Brentford had led to more residents in Grove Park asking for controlled parking to be considered.

Despite deciding some years ago to reject controlled parking for Grove Park as a whole, it now looks as if much of the area is likely to get a parking scheme over the next few years as more streets 'opt in' because of parking 'creep'. However, there still remain many residents in the area who are opposed to a CPZ and it has proved to be a divisive issue.

July 29, 2017