Members of horticultural society fined when attending recent meeting
Council enforcing car boot sale parking restrictions
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Members of the Chiswick Horticultural and Allotments Society (CHAS) have reacted with dismay after they received fines last Sunday (7 February) for parking on Staveley Road.
A restriction on parking at the location had originally been put in place from 5.30am to 1pm on the first Sunday of each month to limit the congestion caused by the Chiswick School car boot sale but this has not been operating since last February.
The society, which is a registered charity, opens its trading hut on Staveley Road to allow members to exchange produce on Sunday mornings from 10am – 12.30pm but, prior to the pandemic, did not operate on the first Sunday of the month.
With the car boot sale not happening, the society has started opening every Sunday but the council has now without warning, started enforcing the parking restriction.
Members had assumed that as the traffic restrictions relating to Staveley Road had been suspended during school closures that restrictions which apply to activities on the school premises should similarly be suspended.
Jill Morris, the Secretary of the society said in her appeal against the fine to Hounslow Council, “We are attempting to provide a worthwhile service to our Members during lockdown by supplying agricultural items such as composts/seeds/ seed potatoes. The fact that you issued me with a ticket meant that allotment holders felt too concerned to park on Sunday thus restricting their access to their allotments and restricted their ability to shop. You are not assisting us for a reason I cannot fathom.”
We have asked Hounslow Council for comment.
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February 14, 2021
