Southwark Residents Parking Permit

[noahlxn]

Hello!

I will be moving to SE22 in December and I?m finding it difficult to understand if I am eligible for a residents parking permit. Southwark website is not helpful and just points me in a direction of planning permission.

Any pointers in how I can find out would be a great help!

[worldwiser]

If you're west of LL, you'll probably get one. If you're east you won't.

They've done a bang up job of dividing the area right into two.

That and created havoc with their closing of a dozen roads in a child-like experiment to see what happens when you halve the available space for traffic flow. And after they inexplicably carpeted the area with unnecessary yellow lines to reduce parking spaces by 10%.

Why would Southwark have a user-friendly website when they are clearly the community's sworn enemy?

Good luck living here.

[Sally Eva]

Try this link https://www.southwark.gov.uk/parking/parking-permits/on-street-permits/resident-parking-permits

I hope you enjoy living here.

[first mate]

I do find it slightly disconcerting that reps of Southwark Cycling have such intimate knowledge of the ins and outs of recently introduced CPZs in the area. It does give the impression that they have somehow been party to stuff that mere residents have not been.

[legalalien]

That?s because they have. The council?s policy is to consult disability and cycling groups on traffic management orders that affect them. Choosing one at random (I just put CPZ into the search engine and this came up), the description of the consultation process for the Croxted CPZ is:

?12. Notice was also given to non-statutory consultees including: Transport for London, Southwark Disablement Association, Southwark Disability Forum, Southwark Cyclists, Living Streets and London Travel Watch.?

Policy at https://www.southwark.gov.uk/transport-and-roads/traffic-orders-licensing-strategies-and-regulation/traffic-management-orders?chapter=2. Note that SC also seem to be consulted on relevant experimental orders where no advance public consultation is required eg http://moderngov.southwark.gov.uk/documents/s91051/APPENDIX%201%20PECKHAM%20RYE.pdf

first mate Wrote:

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> I do find it slightly disconcerting that reps of

> Southwark Cycling have such intimate knowledge of

> the ins and outs of recently introduced CPZs in

> the area. It does give the impression that they

> have somehow been party to stuff that mere

> residents have not been.

[Sally Eva]

I googled southwark resident parking. The top result is the link I posted.

[first mate]

But other relevant stakeholders like businesses or emergency services not consulted from the start?

legalalien Wrote:

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> That?s because they have. The council?s policy is

> to consult disability and cycling groups on

> traffic management orders that affect them.

> Choosing one at random (I just put CPZ into the

> search engine and this came up), the description

> of the consultation process for the Croxted CPZ

> is:

>

>

> ?12. Notice was also given to non-statutory

> consultees including: Transport for London,

> Southwark Disablement Association, Southwark

> Disability Forum, Southwark Cyclists, Living

> Streets and London Travel Watch.?

>

> Policy at

> https://www.southwark.gov.uk/transport-and-roads/t

> raffic-orders-licensing-strategies-and-regulation/

> traffic-management-orders?chapter=2. Note that SC

> also seem to be consulted on relevant experimental

> orders where no advance public consultation is

> required eg

> http://moderngov.southwark.gov.uk/documents/s91051

> /APPENDIX%201%20PECKHAM%20RYE.pdf

>

>

>

> first mate Wrote:

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> -----

> > I do find it slightly disconcerting that reps

> of

> > Southwark Cycling have such intimate knowledge

> of

> > the ins and outs of recently introduced CPZs in

> > the area. It does give the impression that they

> > have somehow been party to stuff that mere

> > residents have not been.

[legalalien]

As I understand it the statutory consultation still has to take place for experimentals - this includes emergency services (see this link for the list)

https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1996/2489/regulation/6/made

[northernmonkey]

Oh come on - surely its all a massive conspiracy and not just google!

NoahLxn - where are you moving to in ED? If its a street that has a CPZ then you need one and are eligible - if its not you might not need one and might not be eligible. There are some adjacent roads who are not covered by the CPZ but eligible to buy permits. This is all publicly available and not part of any special info I have ;-)

Sally Eva Wrote:

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> I googled southwark resident parking. The top

> result is the link I posted.

[legalalien]

Conspiracy :). Not at all. Southwark choose to consult Southwark Cyclists, presumably so they can get their views

(although if there is a conspiracy, take their instructions!). Rather than complain about that, better to request they consult other groups as a matter of course eg residents associations, or maybe we should ask them to post on local bulletin boards like this? An RSS feed? We want more transparency, not less - I think so anyway.

On that note, the Southwark Cyclists AGM is on next week (online) and open to all...

https://southwarkcyclists.org.uk/events/southwark-cyclists-agm/