11 May - Bexley Council pleasing no one again
The
Consultation period on extending
the Abbey Wood CPZ restriction hours by a
factor of five and increasing the cost of a permit by 25% ended yesterday and I did not get around to commenting -
usual reasons applied.
I knew of two petitions
against the proposals, one by a resident of Fendyke Road (pictured) and another by
the owner of the refreshment Kiosk at Lesnes Abbey which Bexley Council
would happily see go out of business.
My own view is that the proposals are taken straight out of Sadiq Khan’s book of
unnecessary regulations. I can look straight down Fendyke Road from my front
door and as the picture taken this afternoon shows it doesn’t have a parking
problem. The 11 a.m. to 1 p.m.
restriction is enough to successfully deter commuters. Maybe Abbey Road is
different as it includes paid bays (£7·50 an hour, minimum two hours) which are
arranged in a way which amount to entrapment of the unwary, but the CPZ comments I have heard have been
entirely negative. They will if implemented cost residents money, make care and
trade visits next to impossible and push any parking problem there may be into adjacent roads,
viz. mine.
Craske’s scheme is unwanted, unnecessary and nothing but a cash grab with few benefits. ULEZ anybody?
I may not have had time to respond to to the Consultation but fortunately my Labour Councillors did.
I donְ’t like Facebook and rarely look at it and among the reasons is that the
dictator who runs the show won’t allow the text to be copied to BiB so that readers who share my view of Facebook don’t have
to log in to read it. So we have a screen shot instead.
It is very comprehensive and makes a very good job of covering the various issues. Read it carefully and I think you might conclude that my three Councillors are very politely saying that Bexley Council is run by
uncaring and undemocratic incompetents who have already made up their minds as
to what they want to do - ULEZ tactics again?
One must hope that Cabinet Member Craske is for once in his life in listening mode.
