bels123 Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Let the scare stories, myths and fake news > commence....! > > Councils legally have to keep revenues from > parking in a separate account to cover the > operational costs of a CPZ (ie enforcement > officers issuing tickets to ensure spaces free for > those with permits). Any surplus is spent on > highways improvements. > > The council is not trying to enforce this on us, > it?s thankfully listened to many residents asking > for restricted parking to address the current > parking issues and resulting congestion, which is > only going to worsen with the new Charter ED > school and health centre being operational in the > new few years. Hundreds of teachers and health > centre visitors expected each day with minimal > room onsite for parking. > > The zone is admittedly very large, I?m assuming > this is to address any concerns about spill over. Looks to me like the council can spend the money raised on quite a few transport related things. If they don't get the money from a CPZ presumably it has to come out of the general budget raised from our council tax? H&F Make about a ?23m a year surplus out of parking controls for example: https://www.lbhf.gov.uk/sites/default/files/section_attachments/lbhf_annual_parking_report_-_v1.0.pdf ?9.6m goes on concessionary fares, if they didn't get the money from the CPZ where would it come from? Where would the ?10.9m money for highways maintenance etc come from if they didn't have a CPZ? If Southwark are going to introduce a CPZ surely they could then use the money raised to pay for concessionary fares & highway maintenance which is funded how at the moment? If the spending on highway maintenance etc is coming from our general council tax then surely Southwark could take the budget freed up and reduce all our council tax? Effectively make the CPZ free and possibly even saving us all money. In that case sounds good to me.