July is date set to cure Marlow's parking ills (From Bucks Free Press)
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July is date set to cure Marlow's parking ills
12:00pm Saturday 29th September 2012 in News By James Nadal
Sainsbury's opening sparked a parking protest last year near Riley Park
HIGHWAYS officials have set a date of July 2013 to solve Marlow's Parking problems.
A town wide review is set to take place using the £80,000 provided by Sainsbury's when it took over the West Street store from Waitrose.
Parking has been an extremely hot topic for residents in various parts of Marlow in recent times.
Residents near Sainsbury's in the streets around Riley Park have campaigned for parking permits to keep the area clear from commuters.
Householders around Harwood Road have been angered by Sir William Borlase's School pupils parking on their street.
This caused a backlash from the teenagers, who said they were parking perfectly legally.
Parking is at the centre of the problem for campaigners against plans for a new housing development replacing the Plough pub.
The issue was raised at a public meeting on September 15 about a new ten year plan for Marlow, when some residents demanded Marlow Town Council take action.
Sue Winter, a leading campaigner in the Plough protest, said: "The elephant in the room at that meeting was the parking situation. We can't carry on like this, it's grinding to a halt."
Councillors highlighted the fact a review was due to take place and Cllr Richard Scott has now announced how this will work.
Buckinghamshire County Council contractors will carry out a survey, identifying trouble spots, and then an informal consultation will start in October.
These will be the basis for creating firm proposals, subject to a full public consultation. Cllr Scott said the likely date for a fully worked out plan to be implemented would be July 2013.
Is parking a problem in your street? What do you want the council to do? Would permits help ease the problem or make it worse?
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Comments(3)
Ivor'sbestfriend
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9:57am Mon 1 Oct 12
DonRockell
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9:58pm Tue 2 Oct 12
A] 80K is a derisory sum of money in the terms of traffic control and parking and will pay for maybe just one yellow line around the high street area so raise any hopes about this being any big deal for the town - its not.
B] We have car parks - what we don't have is a sensible policy towards their use or a uniform charge. In the week they charge one fee and at week end they charge £1.00 for anything over 30 min in one car park and the same for almost all day in another - and they charge 60p an hour in one and £1.20 in another then to add extra insult they have two permanent parking attendants camped out next to the toilets in their own little box just in case some wants to stop for a minute and forgets to pay or needs to get some change. No wonder pepole take the risk and want to park down the High Street.
C] The Sprog run- Will someone please tell me why people from Wycombe bring children to school in Marlow, Marlow People take their children to Wycombe, Maidenhead and Bourne End What is it? do people want waist time blocking the roads up in the mornings, all it does is to clutter up the roads, causes chaos around the schools and gives the local authorities and easy way out - Demand good schools where ever you live and don't expect one town to have all the good schools and the others to all be rubbish and if that upsets teachers fine - The teachers we had did their **** best to push us to our limits and it wouldn't hurt for that to be the norm now rather than worrying about league tables or if GCSE's are getting to harder this year. Not only that but I'm very sure kids cant walk any more because the number of people that drive their little darlings a short trip across town would be laughable if it wasn't so sad.
MSP999 says...
9:14pm Sat 29 Sep 12