Advice surgery this morning – given the size of East Acton ward, we hold five advice surgeries every month. Today’s was at St Gabriel’s Church Hall, and is aimed principally at residents of the North Acton section of the ward. Issues raised include individual problems with a street light and rubbish collection ; progress on a controversial planning application ; and the latest situation on the consultation being undertaken on the option of a residents controlled parking zone for the Gypsy Corner area. This is a very typical set of advice surgery complaints and queries.
The proposal for a controlled parking zone arose from strong lobbying from local residents, who are suffering increasing parking problems caused by commuters to North Acton and Acton Main Line stations and the (welcome) redevelopment of old employment sites in the area. My impression is that enthusiasm for the zone generally depends on how close people live to the stations, but we’ll see when the consultation results come in. The Council has a deliberately ‘pick and mix’ approach to controlled parking, so that individual roads can opt in or out of the zone through their votes in the consultation . This means that it is possible to address very distinctive local problems in different ways, within an overall policy framework, without any risk of a narrow majority imposing their will on others.
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