Harringay, Haringey - So Good they Spelt it Twice!
How much is your off street parking space worth?
There is a "wonderful" new website/app called "yourparkingspace.co.uk" that is like the rightmove of parking spaces. Compared to the council charges which are a 10th of this we're getting quite a good deal. Imagine if the street parking was privatised like everything else is becoming?
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Permalink Reply by John McMullan on
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Apologies, original item edited to add link/evidence, and here. I now need to confess that I should have been more honest/specific about it. The charges are being reduced for older, more polluting vehicles (especially the big ones). Increases for everything else.
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Permalink Reply by Amit on
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Apologies if I'm being dense but where is that table in the attached link ? From what I can see, those prices also apply to CO2 Emission Band Vehicles (registered on or after 23 March 2001) so not just older vehicles as you seem to imply?
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Just found the table - it clearly states that the prices have gone up (from £328 to £360, etc.)
In fact, the only prices going down are for low Emission residential vehicles. Seems fair enough to me...
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Seen my screenshot? Older, more polluting vehicles have gone DOWN in price.
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I'm sorry I rushed this (I was supposed to be doing my day job). I've edited the original posting and will leave this here so that people can see my original mistake.
I had seen a tweet earlier in the week from someone in Hackney aghast that Haringey were reducing charges for some vehicles. I should have checked.
Anyway, you're correct, the council are increasing parking charges. Soon they'll have an interest in making us all have a car and park it on the street.
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Actually, looks like I may have been right, the devil is in the detail.
These proposals suggest that owners of diesel powered vehicles (e.g. such as a Land Rover Evoque, 109g CO2) could have their parking charges almost halved. Is this correct? pic.twitter.com/38zxTwwN4F
— Haringey Cycling (@HaringeyCyclist) February 9, 2018
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Oh no, this whole thread is really about what the prices for parking would be if there was an open market! The council base their charges on CO2 when as we've seen, London is suffering from diesel particulates and the obsession with CO2 was a political target that diesel manufacturers literally, gamed.
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I didn't realise that they were proposing new charges. I see that they're still pushing people to car ownership with the abolishment of 2 hour permits and more than doubling the price of a one hour permit. They should probably take a look at the car ownership figures for the borough at some point (or possibly it's intentional).
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And:
It is anticipated that those [one-hour] permits would be used within the year purchased and not stock piled for future years.
Unused permits would therefore not be exchanged or refunded.
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Permalink Reply by Hugh on
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If we all remember when (and if) this comes up for consultation, this no-refund / no-exchange policy should be challenged.
As I found out with my episode last year, Haringey try and hide it but you can currently get a refund (but not an exchange) unused vouchers.
I didn't have unused vouchers because I had been trying to stockpile them. I had them because buying them at the time was a real pain and to minimise the discomfort I bought enough for two or three years. It's insulting for the Council to suggest that people who have left-over vouchers are somehow trying to be dishonest. I'm sure that for most people with out-of-date leftovers, this isn't the case.
As my quick research last year showed, Haringey are almost unique in London in refusing to exchange out-of-date permits.
Now that Haringey are removing physical parking payment paraphenalia for on-street parking, I can't quite see why the new paperless technology can't also be used for visitor parking. The same restrictions can be placed on quantity as with a paper-based system. (It just occurred to me to check and I see that, for example, Wandsworth have such a system. One has to wonder why Haringey remain attached to a paper-based system.)
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