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The consultation is open, closes on 31 January. The documents are online at https://consultations.southwark.gov.uk/environment-leisure/eastdulwichparking/ There is a drop in session where you can go to ask questions on 26 January from 1400-1700 at Push Studios, 17 Blackwater Road if you have questions concerns and want to know more before filling in the consultation. Parking problems and paying for parking is just one of the things you encounter living in London. Never welcome but part of living in a civilised societies that rules are needed so everyone can get along. They don?t work for everyone all the time and where they may seem excessive to a sensible person there is always a selfish person who would do what?s restricted. Who hasn?t seen a car parked on double yellow lines somewhere they cause a hold up for other traffic? Lucky you if you drive in London and haven?t been held up, not quite the same but an example that what seems wrong can help in the end. As a resident in what is now the Dog Kennel Hill zone for over 20 years I have seen a number of consultations for a parking zone and an increase in parking problems. Since the introduction of the zone parking, and driving around the zone, is much easier. The East Dulwich zone will be bigger and commuters are not the only problem but the proposal looks reasonable. The split of bays means there will be parking for all types of user and people will still be able to park and visit local businesses, although if from outside the area they will need to pay if they want to stay longer than half an hour and if from within the zone and wanting to park without paying they will need to use the shared use bays not the short stay parking bays as the permit won?t be valid there. To put a couple of the concerns expressed on this thread in context: Local businesses will be affected - do any of the businesses on Lordship Lane sell anything that can?t be carried / delivered. There is always the option of taking a taxi. Lordship Lane won?t be the only high street with paid for parking in London, and in 20+ years of living in East Dulwich I nearly always walk to Lordship Lane, I?m sure I?m not the only one - yes other people will have different situations but I?m sure there are plenty of people who walk to use the shops and restaurants in Lordship Lane. People can pay for the short period by phone and leave the car all day. The signs in the consultation document have a limit on all paid for parking. In the Dog Kennel Hill zone the restriction is only for 2 hours but there is a limit on the paid for parking bays so a car can not be left there all day. The consultation paperwork refers to Thorburn Square and having looked at the traffic order for that it has a restriction so cars can?t return to the same bay so if someone did pay to park and leave the car there all day a call could be made for enforcement and a penalty issued. Its a common problem and I wouldn?t expect the Council to write the traffic order from scratch but use one they?ve written before, and if that isn?t in the original order and does prove to be a problem its easier to amend an order once its in place than put a new one in. Whether you support a CPZ or not read the documents for yourself, comments on here aren?t always accurate even with the best of intentions, and respond to the consultation.

Thanks Zig-zag. I only travel through the station on and off and the posters at the station passed me by and I found out about this on another thread. I can?t see a way to attach files so see post by Zig-zag on http://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/forum/read.php?5,1993094,1993200#REPLY for more info and a map. PLEASE follow the one way system. Yes the redesign left a lot to be desired. Yes a new entrance is needed. Yes whoever is responsible could have done better. But we need to travel through the station until they get their act together. A one way system may not be ideal but it looks like they?ve learned from the last failed attempt and access to platforms will be quicker. Give it a go, make suggestions for improvements/ report ?inconvenience? supporting a new entrance so those who make the decisions know how pass? are affected. It might work if we all give it a go - it can?t be worse - and the people who make the decisions almost certainly don?t use the station. I remember my dad telling me that when he first passed his driving test there were no drink driving laws. How many of us just accept that if we take the car out we put our seatbelt on and don?t drink. Sure when these laws came in there were people who were against them.

Denmark Hill One Way System from 22 December Thanks Zig-zag. I only travel through the station on and off and the posters at the station passed me by and I found out about this on another thread. PLEASE follow the one way system. Yes the redesign left a lot to be desired. Yes a new entrance is needed. Yes whoever is responsible could have done better. But we need to travel through the station until they get their act together. A one way system may not be ideal but it looks like they?ve learned from the last failed attempt and access to platforms will be quicker. Give it a go, make suggestions for improvements/ report ?inconvenience? supporting a new entrance so those who make the decisions know how pass? are affected. It might work if we all give it a go - it can?t be worse - and the people who make the decisions almost certainly don?t use the station. I remember my dad telling me that when he first passed his driving test there were no drink driving laws. How many of us just accept that if we take the car out we put our seatbelt on and don?t drink. Sure when these laws came in there were people who were against them.