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
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Read QPARA’s response to Brent’s Parking Consultation
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Have your say about parking in CPZs. Register by 2pm tomorrow, Friday 22nd April, to join Brent focus group. First come, first served.
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 groupDear 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
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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
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Queen’s Park ticket office to close?
London Underground has proposed closing the ticket office at Queen’s Park station. There was widespread community concern and QPARA objected. We understand that London Underground will install better ticket machines in December and will then monitor the number of ticket office transactions to see if they justify keeping the office open. Here’s hoping!After the successful introduction of the new ticket machines, the ticket office will remain open for three months. This period will be to assess whether the numbers of ticket office transactions has fallen below the Department for Transport guidance threshold of fewer than 12 transactions per hour or 3 per 15 minute period. If ticket office transactions have fallen below the threshold, London Underground will close these ticket offices without further public consultation. If they have not, London Underground will have to keep the ticket office open.
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Select Committee supports move of proposed vent shaft from Queen’s Park station site
Further to our post last month, QPARA appears before parliamentary Select Committee, the HS2 Select Committee has now reported and has supported the move of the ventshaft and auto-transformer to the Canterbury Works site in South Kilburn. The HS2 Bill is now going through the normal stages in the House of Commons, after which it will move to the House of Lords.
Cllr Margaret McClennan, Brent lead member for Housing and Development, has agreed to attend the QPARA monthly meeting on 12 May to talk about the housing scheme for the Queen’s Park station site.
