paper petition
This Petition ran from 20/09/2018 to 20/09/2018 and has now finished.
Nobody signed this Petition.
Response sent to lead petitioner
The traffic team has reviewed your petition and confirms, by the
attached, that clear majority support is demonstrated within the
chosen area. Typically the traffic team would respond with a
consultation exercise in the following financial year, i.e. after
March 2019. The purpose of this is to confirm support and define
the position of bays prior to amending its traffic orders and
implementing the new signs and markings, subject to relevant
approvals. The team currently has a full list of parking schemes
relating to petitions submitted in the previous year, plus several
other prospective ones for next year relating to similar petitions
submitted since April 2018.
In this case, the traffic team raises the issue that the proposed extension is rather small, covering only 18 homes. Were the exercise extended to cover the further 57 homes indicated on the attached, it would represent a more strategic proposition for allocation of future funds. It would also provide confidence that a zone extension would not be followed, swiftly after, with a similar petition from the next section of Sketty Road. You will see that the extended zone boundary has been drawn to reflect that, further east, homes are better-served with off-street parking space, which provides some buffering for their occupants from parking displaced from your own part of Sketty Road.
Nothing in this advice obliges you to proceed with additional
petitioning, but doing so would be helpful and may make a stronger
case for the Council taking proposals forward more swiftly.
Generally speaking, petitioning on parking schemes is useful as it
minimises the Council’s risk of spending public money
consulting on proposals that prove unpopular, bringing false hope
to some and needless alarm to others. In addition, residents will
often respond more favourably to proposals they know have
originated in the community. You can contact the following officer
with any questions about this matter:
Jonathan Goodson | Jonathan.Goodson@enfield.gov.uk | 020 8379
3474