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 in a strong position to absorb the increased charges.
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Permalink Reply by Pacific_Flower on
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It looks like today's meeting is now cancelled?
https://www.minutes.haringey.gov.uk/ieListDocuments.aspx?CId=435&am...
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Permalink Reply by JulieB on
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I just read the report on the statutory consultation and it looks like they recommend not removing daily visitor parking permits. It reads like it's been agreed already but I don't know if it still needs to be signed off at their next meeting.
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Permalink Reply by Caitlin on
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Hi JulieB - could you please share a link to the report? I can't find it! Thank you!
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Found it! Key parts highlighted in attachment below. (www.minutes.haringey.gov.uk/ieListDocuments
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Permalink Reply by Hugh on
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Fantastic. Thank you Pacific, Julie and Caitlin.
I see it's almost exactly six months since this post first uncovered this issue. The u-turn revealed today shows that keeping an eye on what's going on and residents acting together with a good case can still make a difference.
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Excellent news. And a big thanks to you Hugh for highlighting the issue and keeping it on the agenda.
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Permalink Reply by Anna Abela on
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Hi everyone,
I have asked why yesterday's Cabinet Member Signing was cancelled. This was due to a technicality: the signing of this decision will now take place on 5th February.
That said, I am delighted to see that the report clearly recommends that the proposal to withdraw daily visitor parking permits should not progress.
Thank you to the thousands of residents who joined Zena and I in objecting to this proposal through the statutory consultation. The report states that 2,906 respondents objected to the withdrawal of daily visitor parking permits. This extraordinary mobilisation of residents- alongside a fair amount of councillors' advocacy behind the scenes - has moved the dial on this important matter. Well done everyone!
Best wishes.
Cllr Anna Abela (Harringay ward)
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And what news of Cllr Chandwani and the officers who sought to push through this quite ludicrous plan?
Applauding a course correction and application of common sense is fine for toddlers and teenagers as there's some expectation that it will reinforce learning. For adults though, there need to be consequences.
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Dear Cllr Anna
I think you will find that it is you and Zena who joined the thousands of residents as with Hugh and Harringay Online and the mammoth protest it generated you would not, even now, be aware of this proposal - well done everyone...
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Thank you Cllr Abela. Only you and 3 other councillors formally opposed the proposals through the consultation.
Sometimes organisations like council's make errors or mistakes. Without taking away from the fantastic campaign run by residents on this issue, I think Haringey Council should be commended in this case for listening and changing their approach.
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Permalink Reply by Barrie Birch
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I have to disagree with you. Haringey Council have, by even making this proposal, shown themselves to be grossly out of touch. How could they even think of ending daily permits?
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Permalink Reply by Herma F
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I'd just like to add my "well done" to Hugh for keeping this issue at the forefront and to the Councillors who supported the efforts to get this Proposal overturned and to my fellow Haringey residents, it just shows what "people power" can achieve.
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