Tag: Parking

  • Zone KQ – Special Parking Arrangements during the Month of Muharram 2017

    Apologies for the short notice about this but there has been a change of personnel at the council and postcards with this info do not appear to have been sent out. 
     
    If you have visitors this evening or throughout this coming weekend, please make sure they park in the free pay and display bays or if they must park in residents’ bays that you give them permits. PLEASE CHECK ALL SIGNS ON STREETS LISTED BELOW

    As in previous years the Council will be extending the parking and waiting restrictions to 10pm from 28th Sept to 2nd October 2017 in:

    Winchester Avenue, Dunmore Road, Carlisle Road, Radnor Road, Brooksville Avenue, North side of Chevening Road (between Tiverton Road and Salusbury Road), South side of Chevening Road (between Kingswood Avenue and Salusbury Road), East side of Kingswood Avenue (between Chevening Road and Brooksville Avenue) and West side of Salusbury Road (between Chevening Road and Brooksville Avenue).

    Please note visitors to the area during this period could park free after 6.30pm in the Pay & Display bays around the perimeter of the park.

    If you observe any problems with parking, noise or litter during this period you can contact Parking Enforcement on 020 8937 4995 between 8am and 10pm every day or Transportation Service, Brent Civic Centre, Engineers Way, Wembley, Middlesex HA9 0FJ. transportation@brent.gov.uk  www.brent.gov.uk. Al Khoei Islamic Centre can be contacted on 020 7372 4049 / Email – a.jaffar@alkhoei.org

  • Read QPARA’s response to Brent’s Parking Consultation

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    QPARA responded to Brent’s recent consultation on on-street parking and charges following a discussion between members at our May meeting. You can  read the letter we sent to Brent here: Parking consultation QPARA response May 2016

  • Have your say about parking in CPZs. Register by 2pm tomorrow, Friday 22nd April, to join Brent focus group. First come, first served.

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    We have been asked to widely circulate this invitation:

    From: “Olatunde, Bola”<Bola.Olatunde@brent.gov.uk>
    Date: 21 Apr 2016 12:44
    Subject: Parking consultation – invitation to join a focus group

    Dear Panel Member

    Brent Parking Services recently launched an online consultation about proposed changes to parking charges and the management of on-street parking in Controlled Parking Zones (CPZs) across the borough.

    As part of the consultation, we would like to invite you to an independently facilitated engagement event to discuss our proposal in one of the three focus group sessions listed below. We expect each session to run for approximately 90 minutes, and will be limited to 20 participants.

    Monday, 25 April 2016, 11:30am to 1:00pm at Patidar House, 22 London Road, Wembley HA9 7EX

    Thursday, 28 April 2016,  6:30pm to 8pm at St Gabriel’s Hall, Chichele Road (corner of Anson Road), London NW2 3AQ – please note: this is not the church

    Tuesday, 03 May 2016, 4:30pm to 6pm at Bridge Park Leisure Centre, London NW10 0RG

    Places are limited and will be offered on a first come first served basis, so we would be very grateful if would you confirm attendance and your preferred date by emailing bola.olatunde@brent.gov.uk no later than 2pm tomorrow – Friday, 22 April.

    To thank you for your time, we are offering attendees £15 worth of ‘Love 2 Shop’ vouchers that can be redeemed in a number of restaurants and shops.

    If you have any questions about the parking consultation, email anthony.vartanian@brent.gov.uk.

    We look forward to hearing from you, and thank you for your continued support.

    Best regards

    Bola

    Bola Olatunde

    Partnerships and Engagement Officer, Chief Executive’s Department

    Tel: 020 8937 1073   Mobile: 07867 186 845

  • Please complete to Brent’s questionnaire on parking in CPZs

    Brent Council is consulting residents, schools, and businesses about proposals to change how they manage on-street parking in Controlled Parking Zones (CPZ) across the borough.

    The Association will be responding following our May monthly meeting. Meanwhile please complete the questionnaire, so that Brent’s policy is informed by as wider cross section of views as possible.

    The questionnaire is now live until 10th May 2016.

    Questionnaire on parking and charges in Brent Controlled Parking Zones

  • QPARA helps see off immediate rise in visitor parking charges

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    Before Christmas the Brent Council Cabinet approved plans to increase visitor parking charges in resident parking zones (CPZs) by 200%. The intention was to make the necessary traffic orders in the New Year.

    QPARA got hold of the Cabinet paper and asked for discussions with Cllr Ellie Southwood, who is the lead for the Environment as well as a Queen’s Park ward councilor. These took place at QPARA’s December meeting and were based on a full presentation of the Council’s case.

    The main justification was to catch up with what other Boroughs were charging and to deal with an alleged abuse of some residents selling permits to commuters.

    QPARA members pointed out that an increase of 200% across the board was not a reasonable response to an alleged but unproven problem in two or three areas. They were concerned about a whole range of issues making it hard for residents with annual permits to park near their own houses. These included permits issued to schools for teachers and to businesses, builders’ skips, unused car club bays, as well as parking congestion and abuses around parents collecting children from the five Salusbury Road schools.

    Without waiting for the statutory consultation on the traffic orders QPARA sent in its objections to Cllr Southwood on 24 January calling for a wider review of parking in the borough before considering such huge increases in visitor parking.

    Shortly after this Cllr Southwood wrote to Labour councillors withdrawing the proposals, saying “I have come to the view that the visitor parking charges proposal needs to be set in the context of a wider review of our parking offer.”

    Responding Robin Sharp, QPARA Transport and Streetscape Group spokesperson, said “We welcome this rethink. Visitor parking represents only a small part of the problem in this area and should not be singled out for a disproportionate increase.”