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General Category => General Discussion => Topic started by: Fly on June 26, 2014, 08:22:55 PM
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Chesterfield already do this. Which I don't agree with.
Matlock look to follow suit. Isn't this just another cash cow ?
http://www.matlockmercury.co.uk/news/local/residents-could-pay-to-park-in-matlock-1-6694029 (http://www.matlockmercury.co.uk/news/local/residents-could-pay-to-park-in-matlock-1-6694029)
Seriously need to mod our garden for off street parking.
(http://i1057.photobucket.com/albums/t382/Barry_Fly/101_0072_zpse74fdae8.jpg) (http://s1057.photobucket.com/user/Barry_Fly/media/101_0072_zpse74fdae8.jpg.html)
Our garden's the bottom left one. The one with the trimmed privet hedge ::)
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Chesterfield already do this. Which I don't agree with.
Matlock look to follow suit. Isn't this just another cash cow ?
http://www.matlockmercury.co.uk/news/local/residents-could-pay-to-park-in-matlock-1-6694029 (http://www.matlockmercury.co.uk/news/local/residents-could-pay-to-park-in-matlock-1-6694029)
Seriously need to mod our garden for off street parking.
(http://i1057.photobucket.com/albums/t382/Barry_Fly/101_0072_zpse74fdae8.jpg) (http://s1057.photobucket.com/user/Barry_Fly/media/101_0072_zpse74fdae8.jpg.html)
Our garden's the bottom left one. The one with the trimmed privet hedge ::)
Nowt I like better than a neatly trimmed bush Fly! >;
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Nowt I like better than a neatly trimmed bush Fly! >;
Down Corgi DOWN ;D
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No comment On either hedge, bush, or other stuff replies :-X
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Err hmm back on topic I think this was because of county offices staff/visitors parking on the streets in that area wasn't it.
Have read something in the Matlock Mercury about it
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No comment On either hedge, bush, or other stuff replies :-X
Miserable git :))
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;)
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Dont you pay already? Isnt it called Council Tax and Vehicle Excise Duty?
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I have to pay to park on my street and tbh its a good thing. We always had folks parking on our street who didn't live here - making it residents parking keeps em away.
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To be honest it annoys me when people park on the road down our street and they have plenty of standing room on their front gardens.
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Dont you pay already? Isnt it called Council Tax and Vehicle Excise Duty?
Are you are missing something Simon, you don't pay to park outside your own house, on the road !
Some CDC residents have to.
@Pete, I'm saying resident parking should be free.
I appreciate you have somewhere to park outside your own house. But pay for it, against people visiting and trying to avoid parking costs. Cc for example !
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>> @Pete, I'm saying resident parking should be free.
How can it be free? Who is going to organise and administer it? Who's going to pay to police it?
Everything has to be paid for.
The only discussion is about how much they charge.
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Ive got the wrong end of the stick. My bad
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You could always pay to rent someone elses drive!!!
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Nobody owns the piece of road in front of their house. Your choice if you want to pay for preferential parking though if you get the kerb dropped it's illegal from someone to come and obstruct it (have it done properly, it's on my patch !)
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Your choice if you want to pay for preferential parking....
'preferential parking' - what's that?
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Residents' parking, where you do effectively have the sole right to park on the highway in the region of our house
About 30 years ago I had an issue where a bus stop was moved a couple of lamp posts to right outside our house effectively making it a no parking area. Had quite a battle on to get it moved one lamp post away where there were no houses. Won in the end with help from my local councillor. I since built a driveway and had the kerbs dropped.
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Prior to Chesterfield being divided into parking zones with charges for parking in each zone being introduced, residents could park freely anywhere in the town provided they didn't breech yellow line restrictions.
Charging for what was previously free isn't 'preferential'.
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Am I right in saying that regular visitors to chesterfield can buy a cheaper rate parking ticker for the car parking?
If so and it is reasonable why not buy one?
This would probably cut down the need for people to look for free parking spaces
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>> Charging for what was previously free isn't 'preferential'.
I live on a street near the town centre and so many people used to park there that I would often have to park on another street, especially when there was a footie match.
So when they introduced residents parking at £7 a year I thought that was the bargain of the year. :)
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I suppose when you have had the inconvenience of not being able to park in front of your own home the yearly £7.00 is welcome.
It's an elderly relative who goes into town each week that has told me he pays for a yearly ticket to park and he was more than happy with the price.
We used to live near a Betting shop and had the same problems as you did Pete, it's very annoying when you have to unload a weeks shopping!!
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>> Charging for what was previously free isn't 'preferential'.
I live on a street near the town centre and so many people used to park there that I would often have to park on another street, especially when there was a footie match.
So when they introduced residents parking at £7 a year I thought that was the bargain of the year. :)
I live near the college where students used to park half on the pavement both sides of the road, on bends, at junctions - everywhere, five days a week.
What do we now have? No daytime week day parking for anyone (residents included) outside 70 or so houses so it looks like a ghost town. Current resident parking charges are way above £7:
Residents permit - £35.00 per annum for the first permit
Additional residents permits - £50.00 per annum per permit (no limit)
Annual visitor permit - £13.00 per annum (limited to 1 per property). This is a flexible permit for any visitor to your property, therefore it does not need to registered to a particular vehicle.
Visitor day permit - £3.00 per day (scratch cards - minimum purchase of 5 (£15.00), with a maximum of 25 per annum per property)
Business permit - £70.00 per annum (limited to 1 per business within the Zone)
Registered charities are eligible to apply for 2 free permits per annum
Disabled residents may be eligible for a free residents permit, subject to a mobility assessment by Derbyshire social services. Telephone 01629 537876 for an assessment
The only place my neighbours and I can park free is a stretch of Canal Wharf where vehicles have been vandalised - jumped on, lights and mirrors smashed, doors kicked.
We have to share our paid-for residents parking with public parking (up to 2 hours) so if we go out during the day, we lose our space to students who come and go depending on the timing of their courses - there is no dedicated 'residents parking only' even though we pay £35 for this 'preferential' treatment.
I believe however, that thanks to the Cameron government <spit> residents are to be given the right of appeal against parking schemes that don't best serve them. As soon as that becomes law I'll be asking my 70 or so neighbours how they feel about the present scheme.
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Yep, that's what charges I have to pay.
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Pete I thought yours was £7.00 a year? Sorry I Must have read it wrong.
I have to agree with you Dave, it's a bit of a devil if people can't park in front of their own homes just because it's in a town/college it should be made free for residents and parking fines for others but it costs money for a warden?
Why should a person be penalised for where they live because that's what it is isn't it.
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Presume on some of the older terraced streets (how come there's never a street full of cars in Corrie?) there is no room for more than one car per house to park on the street. At around £1K for a dropped (and that's if you have room to park of the road) crossing the scheme doesn't sound bad value
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If it's only £7 then I might welcome it where I am - Sheffield Road end of Stand Road. There's plenty of parking on Sheff Rd itself and a free, all-day car park opposite me, but people still park outside the houses there.
My only reservations are 1) that, elsewhere, bits of road near junctions such as mine have this "permit holder or one hour" type of sign over them, thus allowing Joe Public to park, and 2) the scheme doesn't apply on Sundays, when the kids' football on the park brings in far more cars than the car park can cope with and I end up having to hump heavy bags of shopping some distance to my house.
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As I said, £7 was brilliant, £14 for me and my wife's cars - but when they increased the fee to £85 I thought it outrageous - essentially a 600% increase!
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£85? They can do one. They might as well put a parking meter outside your house, and have done with it.
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'Nobody owns the piece of road in front of their house. '
Slacker!!!!!! as a Council Officer and a Councilor please read the law.
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The only thing I know about that mycul was the first house we bought was on an un-adopted road.
We were told back then that we could all chip in and pay top have it done as the road in front of the houses was ours?
That was in the 70's
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ok I wasn't thinking about unadopted roads
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Not wanting to put you on the spot Slacker but have you any idea what the difference would be between un-adopted road and one which has had tarmac on?
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Nothing to do with whether it's got tarmac on it's whether councils have adopted them or not. Some (eg old Coal Board roads, back roads behind houses)) never get adopted and maintenance responsibility falls to adjacent property owners.
Usually responsibility on a new estate transfers to County Council once they are approved as suitable standard but I've known this process go on ten years or more with a lot of remedial work by the developers
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As I said, £7 was brilliant, £14 for me and my wife's cars - but when they increased the fee to £85 I thought it outrageous - essentially a 600% increase!
We went straight from no charge to £35 a year. I went to county hall and had a meeting with the council officers concerned who told me that residents' parking on the estate roads wasn't possible because they were too narrow and emergency vehicles wouldn't be able to get past - yet they allow it at weekends!!
Four trainee paramedics live next door to us. They each have a car because they work different shifts and their training is at different places however they all attend lectures locally which is why they live there. Between them they pay £185 a year - an absolute disgrace.
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On the other hand they will be taking 4 places up including in front of someone else's house. Most redsident parking schemes are near the town centre so they save on paying to park for town at (what we usually pay) £2.50 a time
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No they're not. There is no parking at all our side of the street and no houses on the opposite side where parking is allowed.
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Pay parking?
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Most redsident parking schemes are near the town centre so they save on paying to park for town at (what we usually pay) £2.50 a time
Unless of course you have a permit provided at the council tax payers expense!!
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Pay parking?
What do you mean, 'pay parking'?
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Unless of course you have a permit provided at the council tax payers expense!!
Which is of course for meetings at the town hall
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What do you mean, 'pay parking'?
A resident parking scheme on the wrong side of the road?
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Which is of course for meetings at the town hall
Of course and you've never nipped in to pick up your mail and then strolled into town have you!!!
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oops, just reminded me forgot to check pigeon hole when I was in today
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oops, just reminded me forgot to check pigeon hole when I was in today
Does that mean you had parked up and wandered down town then Slacker :))
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Even worse. Parked up and forgot why LOL ;)
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Even worse. Parked up and forgot why LOL ;)
Sounds like me :))