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Crouch End CPZs
OK, so I'm a few yards over the border in N8 but we're neighbours, yes? Latest from Haringey Council is that they're planning to extend the two Crouch End CPZs. In particular, up to and including Ferme Park Road. Which will leave Ridge Road and Nelson Road, where I live, as the first streets anyone comes to which are NOT in a CPZ. Great.
So we're going to get all the junk vehicles, tow trucks, occasionally used delivery vans, old motorhomes, everyone's second and third cars, plus the first cars of people who live just to the west of us. In fact we get a fair few of all these already, as the CPZs creep steadily closer. We can't find a parking space round here NOW after around 6.30 most evenings.
Plenty of you have been through this yourselves. So did I, when I lived on Evershot Road and found myself on a street - guess what - just outside an Islington CPZ. Result: predictable hell. And of course, after a year or so of that hell, the residents caved in and begged for a CPZ themselves. And now that street is fine again.
Why do we have to go through this charade, over and over? The whole of Hornsey/Stroud Green will obviously be one big CPZ eventually. Just bring it on NOW. That way, at least it's fair for everyone. The council's piecemeal approach just creates waves of unfairness as the CPZ-dodgers move their vehicles into an ever-decreasing number of streets.
Anyone on Nelson, Inderwick, Mayfield, Denton, Weston Park and Ridge Roads feel the same way? Now's the time to contact the council/your councillors/MP and say - we don't want everyone else's junk vehicles. We don't want to be on the front line just outside your enlarged CPZ. If there have to be CPZs, then we want to be IN them.
So we're going to get all the junk vehicles, tow trucks, occasionally used delivery vans, old motorhomes, everyone's second and third cars, plus the first cars of people who live just to the west of us. In fact we get a fair few of all these already, as the CPZs creep steadily closer. We can't find a parking space round here NOW after around 6.30 most evenings.
Plenty of you have been through this yourselves. So did I, when I lived on Evershot Road and found myself on a street - guess what - just outside an Islington CPZ. Result: predictable hell. And of course, after a year or so of that hell, the residents caved in and begged for a CPZ themselves. And now that street is fine again.
Why do we have to go through this charade, over and over? The whole of Hornsey/Stroud Green will obviously be one big CPZ eventually. Just bring it on NOW. That way, at least it's fair for everyone. The council's piecemeal approach just creates waves of unfairness as the CPZ-dodgers move their vehicles into an ever-decreasing number of streets.
Anyone on Nelson, Inderwick, Mayfield, Denton, Weston Park and Ridge Roads feel the same way? Now's the time to contact the council/your councillors/MP and say - we don't want everyone else's junk vehicles. We don't want to be on the front line just outside your enlarged CPZ. If there have to be CPZs, then we want to be IN them.
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But after more than a decade now of experience, one thing is obvious: to resist them is futile because if you succeed in your resistance, your reward is to be engulfed with refugee vehicles. Having experienced that before, I can tell you it doesn't feel like much of a victory.
It's a quality of life thing: even if you don't drive, it's not exactly great to find your street being turned into a car pound. Usually with half-empty CPZ streets alongside.
That said, living in a CPZ comes at a price. Although a permit owner i've received several tickets for misreading signs and going in "business" bays. They're not very different to the normal ones and when in a hurry, the detail is hard to see. As others have said, if you're not an Arsenal fan, its quite hard to know when you can park and if there's a match. Several friends have been victims of this, and while they didn't say it, i could i got blamed for not knowing Arsenal were playing a Carling Cup match against blah blah blah that day.
My biggest issue is with visitor passes. Onky 10 full day passes allowed per YEAR at a cost of £6 each....no more. If a contractor needs to do some work on your house they take the share of your allocation or they pay £300 for a monthly pass (try finding someone who'll accept that cost!). My GF lives in Queens Park, visitor passes are sold for around 50p a day and are given out as and when you need them. Islington Council are a bunch of money grabbing crooks and have NEVER been able to justify their policy even though i've asked them many times.
I HATE PAYING MY COUNCIL TAXES (TO FUND THE PARKING ATTENDANTS), PAYING TO PARK OUTSIDE MY OWN HOUSE EVEN THOUGH I'M A REGISTERED RESIDENT, NOT HAVING THE FLEXIBILITY TO HAVE PEOPLE COME VISIT ME OR DO WORK ON MY HOUSE AND STILL PAYING MORE IN FINES AS A RESIDENT THAN PROBABLY ANYONE VISITING THE BLOODY AREA IN THE FIRST PLACE!!!!!!!!!!!
I'M NOT AGAINST CPZ'S IN PRINCIPLE, but they should protect and look after the residents they cover, not make them pay through the nose for the service. It isn't working.
.......and relax.
Mine got left on Hornsey Lane, which doesn't really have street parking for residents per se as most have their own private areas as do the flats, but nevertheless i was embarassed to have to leave it in such a state.
@ Domino. For leaving such a pathetic note (there are ways and means of making a point...threats made over a legal parking space are ridiculous) i would consider renting a monster truck or perhaps a large combine harvester and parking it in the same spot for 2 weeks. Maybe if you had enough bottle, sit in it and rev the engine for a few hours too.
Never quite understood this response though. It costs an enormous amount to turn your front garden into a parking space and pay the council to drop the kerb, paint the white line, and allow you to drive across the pavement (a practice normally discouraged). All to save a relatively small amount of money each year? Makes no sense, plus you've lost a garden and a buffer zone to the street, and every time you drive away you're telling burglars that you're out.
But despite such downsides, I stick to my starting position: better a CPZ than the hell that is being just outside one.