Harringay, Haringey - So Good they Spelt it Twice!
Ending of Haringey Daily Visitor Permits to increase daily visitor parking charge by 164%
A parking review consultation run quietly at the start of the year seems to have been so little publicised that it attracted just 42 responses (augmented with another 58 garnered by phone).
The change it included that residents may feel most keenly is the abolition of daily visitor permits.
Currently Haringey's website gives the following prices for visitor permits:
Standard daily visitor permits are £5 and hourly are £1.20.
The "Parking Strategy and Policy/Charges Review, Appendix D: Updated parking permit policy / charges" shares the expectation that residents will henceforth be expected to make up a day's parking permit with hourly permits. For the Ladder where the CPZ runs from 08:00 to 18:30, this will require eleven hourly permits to make up a full day. If the hourly charge remains at £1.20, this will mean a total daily cost of £13.20, an increase of a mere 164%. The cutting below is extracted from that Appendix.
It's not clear to me why hourly permits should be less open to abuse than daily ones, but I'm all ears. If the primary motivation for this change was indeed to counter permit abuse, one would have thought it a fairly easy matter to protect residents from the affects of standing up to the abuse by simply putting a cap on daily charges like London Transport do. As far as I can make out, this hasn't happened.
At section 4.1 of the background papers (attached below), the Council has gone to the trouble of benchmarking the cost of daily business visitor permits. That's helpful. They looked at Camden, Islington, Ealing, Greenwich and Waltham Forest.
For some reason, no benchmarking was done on the cost of daily resident visitor parking costs. I've done my best to fill that gap. I've used the same boroughs and added Hackney since that was a missing neighbouring borough.
The current cost for a visitor to park in CPZ of those six boroughs for a day are as follows.
Camden: £8.79
Islington: £7.20 - £8.00 (on my calculationat £0.90 and £1.00 per hour)) discounted to £2.80 for 60+
Greenwich: Tradesmen £18.50 per week, and £9 per 10 vouchers (no information on time period validity)
Waltham Forest: £8.00 (at £1.00 per hour)
Hackney: £5.30.......................
...................vs Haringey: £13.20
....unless of course I'm misunderstanding Haringey's policy - only too happy to be set straight.
As part of the review, an Equality Impact Assessment (EIA) was run. As a part of that assessment, equality as it relates to socio-economic status was considered. In the case of the daily parking permits, the situation roughly divides the east of the borough, with all its indicators of deprivation, from the much wealthier west. In the west, two-hour CPZ predominate: in the east >8 hour zones are the rule. The shift from daily to hourly permits will barely affect the west of the borough, whereas it will have a significant impact on the east. The only outcomes noted under the socio-economic section of the EIA are "Positive", "Positive" and ... er ... "Positive". The unequal nature of the daily parking charge was not even considered. So the EIA as it relates to socio-economic status is badly flawed.
The change was part of a wider Parking strategy review that was passed by the Council last week. The recommendations of the review were adopted without dissent (see minute 48:30 of meeting on YouTube).
This change is unlikely to affect me personally but I fear that it may have an impact on some who are not is a strong position to absorb the increased charges.
Tags for Forum Posts: daily parking permits, parking, visitor parking, visitor parking permits
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Permalink Reply by Shar on
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"Have a word with themselves"
"Have a rethink"
It isn't a particularly elegant idiom in my opinion, but I think of it as akin to shaking an etch-a-sketch inscribed with hastily conceived notions in order to start afresh.
Da InterWebz claim it originated in Liverpool, but I have no way to confirm this.
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Permalink Reply by Gina Fenton on
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Here in Bruce Castle on event days we could need up to 13 hourly passes, so by my calculations that is £16.25. As a daily pass is currently £5 that is not an increase of 164%.
It is 325%, is it not?
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Permalink Reply by Caitlin on
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Hey Gina, i didnt include event days here for simplicity. Its noted underneath the table but admittedly very small text!
I'm showing % increases, so for Bruce Castle normal CPZ is 8am-6.30pm. This is 10.5 hours, so would need 11 1 hour resident passes priced at £1.20 = £13.20. This is an inrease of £8.20/day on top of the current £5, which is an increase of 164%.
If event days are 13 hours would be 13 x £1.20 = £15.60. Thats increase of £10.60/day so 212% increase! All hugely problematic for residents :(
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Permalink Reply by Michael Anderson on
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Incredible piece of work Caitlin. Thank you.
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Permalink Reply by Niall on
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Facts are stubborn things. Great research Caitlin. I cannot believe the Equality Impact Assessment missed this!! The correlation between price hikes and deprivation is crystal clear.
Really important that every councillor sees this and asks the Cabinet to think again.
Share these images with street WhatsApp Groups before the rubber stamp of Statutory Consultation. Has anyone had a response from a councillor saying what they are going to do?
One of our Councillors, Zena Brabazon, has said she will raise it with the Service Director. Anyone else???
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I have had no resoponses from any of the three councillors I contacted - has anyone else?
FYI I have also heard that Haringay Council will have an interview on BBC Radio London with Eddie Nestor next week (myself and Scott Emery will be on the show tomorrow 11.10).
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Permalink Reply by EMC2 on
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Thank so much Caitlin, I've tweeted my Councillors, let's see what response I get...
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Will find you on Twitter and retweet, etc.
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BTW Hugh, given Caitlin's research here - do you know of any groups similar to HoL in the Borough and are they aware/publishing this?
I thought Harringay was bad, but looking at some of the other areas...
#equalityimpactmyarse
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Permalink Reply by Hugh on
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I don't. My original research was pretty widely picked up around the borough. So, I think people will know where to come.
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