22 April - Bexley Council punishes teachers
Whilst the residents closest to Abbey Wood Station may be
rejoicing about the imposition of an Experimental CPZ (an ETMO), as was predicted, those living
in Elstree Gardens and further to the East are not.
All the houses nearest my own have off street parking places - though many don’t use them - but further afield they
are not so fortunate.
The mail Inbox says that no one living around the Eastern boundary of the
proposed ETMO is in favour of it, not a single one, but that will be because they
don’t see a problem at present. Once parking is effectively banned from 10 to 4 in the roads
nearest to Lesnes Abbey, the problem will move further East, to Elstee Gardens,
Kingswood Avenue and St. Augustine’s Road. Then those residents might change their minds.
A particular problem affects the staff at
St. Augustine’s School who park their
cars in the road. They can only use on site spaces by blocking each other
in with all the chaos that will cause. How will teachers be able to do their
job? They are not allowed to buy a permit.
One begins to understand why Bexley Council took so long to decide which
residents should be annoyed most. I imagine that hundreds of people being
forced to pay £132·50 a year would have been the deciding factor.