Residents Parking Zones - Money for old rope?

[chips and gravy]

I live in one and have to cough up £10 per year to park outside my house (£15 from October). It doesn't help much since the restrictions are only during the day and it's in the evening I have most trouble. Seems like another way of getting money into the County Council to me

 

[Lammy]

I don't agree with resident parking zones anyway. Why have you got more right to park outside your house that any other road tax payer? Just because you own a bit of land NEXT to the road does not mean you have first dibs on the road outside your house. If you own a car and buy a house without a driveway then expect to have difficulty parking it.

 

[J Livingstone Seagull]

I live in one and have to cough up £10 per year to park outside my house (£15 from October). It doesn't help much since the restrictions are only during the day and it's in the evening I have most trouble. Seems like another way of getting money into the County Council to me

Only £10 a year; sounds like a bargain to me. Considerably less than it is in Brighton and you still end up driving round for 10 minutes trying to find a space.

 

[CHAPPERS]

I don't agree with resident parking zones anyway. Why have you got more right to park outside your house that any other road tax payer? Just because you own a bit of land NEXT to the road does not mean you have first dibs on the road outside your house. If you own a car and buy a house without a driveway then expect to have difficulty parking it.

They are looking to make the area around Queens Park residents parking only because of all the workers of Amex who park up there. I know it sounds a bit selfish but it's pretty f***ing annoying having to park miles away from your house because people want to drive to work and oark outside your house (and we're not talking a few here, it's hundreds a day).

 

[Lammy]

They are looking to make the area around Queens Park residents parking only because of all the workers of Amex who park up there. I know it sounds a bit selfish but it's pretty f***ing annoying having to park miles away from your house because people want to drive to work and oark outside your house (and we're not talking a few here, it's hundreds a day).

I agree it's annoying, but at the end of the day they have just as much right to park there as you do. Owning a car is a luxury not a right. They work there, you life there. Who should own the parking rights for that spot? Why shouldn't the Amex worker be abel to pay for the space outside your house? All street parking should be free. We pay enough tax to use the roads as it is.

 

[Josky]

Agreed, Lammy. Scrap cars.

 

[Jello]

Since they introduced in my area (Hove Town Hall) I have no problem parking unles its after 8pm. Used to be a nightmare with shoppers, office workers and impossile when cricket was on. I pay £85 a year, as Lammy says I don't own the road but in Hove where every house is at least 5-6 flats the numbers soon add up. Now if shoppers etc. want to park they too have to pay as a lot is pay and display.

 

[Rangdo]

I agree it's annoying, but at the end of the day they have just as much right to park there as you do. Owning a car is a luxury not a right. They work there, you life there. Who should own the parking rights for that spot? Why shouldn't the Amex worker be abel to pay for the space outside your house? All street parking should be free. We pay enough tax to use the roads as it is.

I live near a factory and people always fill up the road during the day because their car park is too small. You just have to live with it. It's a public road and they pay their tax the same as me.
The thing is with residents parking is that it's not really there for the residents benefit. It's there to generate income for the council and control the flow of traffic in the City.

 

[Lammy]

I live near a factory and people always fill up the road during the day because their car park is too small. You just have to live with it. It's a public road and they pay their tax the same as me.
The thing is with residents parking is that it's not really there for the residents benefit. It's there to generate income for the council and control the flow of traffic in the City.

Exactely.

 

[Soton Seagull]

In some areas of Southampton you have to pay £75 to park outside your own house. Blatantly another tax.