Harringay, Haringey - So Good they Spelt it Twice!
Haringey to remove free Sunday parking in pay-to-park spaces on residential roads
Last week Haringey Council published a traffic management order (TMO) announcing that it would stop free Sunday parking in stop-and-shop spaces on residential roads.
Its statement of reasons was given as follows:
It is proposed that all existing Monday to Saturday Stop and Shop bays are changed to operate Monday to Sunday for the following reasons:
- encourage turn-over of parking space on Sundays, by preventing all-day parking. In turn, this increases the number of parking ‘slots’ that are available for visitor parking and therefore helps maximise the opportunity for custom in the town centres;
- encourage sustainable modes of transport by ensuring that vehicle ownership is not seen as more economical than using sustainable transport - this is achieved by setting of appropriate parking charges;
- ensure that those who receive benefit from the service (i.e. those who make use of a parking space) also contribute to the overall cost of providing that service
The proposals support the council’s Borough Plan 2019-2023, Local Plan and Transport Strategy as well as being aligned with the Mayor of London’s Transport Strategy.
The change will mean that charging arrangements which currently apply on Saturday will now also apply on Sunday.
The main notice is attached.
The council say;
Full details can be seen at www.haringey.gov.uk (See proposed TMO, T43)
If you wish to make any comments please email us at traffic.orders@haringey.gov.uk or write to us at Traffic Management Group, River Park House, 1st floor, 225, High Road, Wood Green, N22 8HQ.
The consultation closing date is 27th October 2021.
Any and all representations will be considered before a final decision is taken.
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Permalink Reply by Will on
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This might be a little misleading. The change only applies to the pay-to-park spaces, not to the CPZ spaces which will remain Mon-Sat. The overwhelming majority of parking on residential roads will remain 'free' or unfettered on Sundays.
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A clarification but when Haringey announced changes to parking earlier this year I don't remember any reference to the Stop and Shop parking rules being altered - only the increase in parking fees. They seem to have tagged this fundamental change on to the increase in parking fees order without any real consultation with local businesses. If you look at the maps that show where Stop and Shop spaces are (they should be in schedules attached to the order but are strangely absent) there are very near to to resident's parking which remains Monday to Friday in most of the borough affected by these changes, and normal yellow line markings. On a Sunday it will now be safer to park on a single yellow line than in a designated parking bay - does this make any sort of sense at all? Were local traders consulted on this change because it affects them enormously?
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This may change also. The consultation for the new CPZ changes for example will mean that my road which is now free on Sunday and only up to 6.30pm will change to include Sundays and up to 10pm. I am still waiting for results of consultation but there appears nothing yet on Haringey website although consultation closed August
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What strikes me is that the first and second bullet points of the aims seem to be mutually incompatible. Increasing the turnover of parking space and so more parking slots encouraging visitors via private cars seems to contradict sustainable modes of transport because the parking charges are not high enough to have any encouragement at all.
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Permalink Reply by Michael Anderson on
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The same thing occurred to me Matt. How allowing more vehicles to park reduces the number of vehicles wishing to park is beyond me. If the aim to to raise more revenue - fine - just say so. If the aim is to reduce the number of people driving to the area and parking up to shop then it will have the opposite impact.
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This appears to evidence, again, the psychographic segmentation of Haringey: Highgate and Crouch End would never put up with such restrictions - 2 hour bans compared with 14 in ‘easy-prey’ areas (areas that would lap up any narrative that justifies additional Sunday restrictions in their locality, and the impending revenue-generating carving of their CPZ. - the latter is subject to a ‘public consultation’. Yeah, right:)
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