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That happened where I used to live, there was a school and nursery near by and the residents have problems with parking at times. It all went fine until they realised the cost of having residents parking and what they would have to pay, thats when the plans seemed to stop due to lack of support

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Hiya

Yeah the scheme does seem to have hit the buffers AT THE MOMENT but I really don't want to let this drop. The situation around The Mount and Accrington Victoria is BAD and seems to be getting worse, something needs doing desperatly but its hard to think of a solution because I really don't think yellow lines are the answer at all. We had massive support for this scheme in pockets of the area (the ones particualy affected) and hardly any in the streets that aren't currently so bad.

Re: Accy Vic - residents parking
 

I think the thing is that lots of houses have more than one car these days, my Daughter lives in Aitkin Street and they have three cars, but I think that happens in a lot of households throughout the borough

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See, I can sort of see that John but there is no other workable solution to this problem. I really don't want to go down the "yellow lines" route because untimatly the residents suffer. The residents are really not the problem here, its inconsiderate staff from both the Mount and Accrington Victoria Hospital, you really do get tired of saying "I told you so" but the planning permission to alter the Mount car park and change of use for the building came to the planning committee just after I was elected and as a member of the planning committee I strongly objected due to the lack of parking but they got planning permission and the rest, as they say, is history. Ultimatly its the residents who suffer

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As you say Clare, there is no easy answer, some for for it and some are against, I know my daughter wasn't to happy when I talked to her about it. It was rather like where my Father used to live near the Civic Theatre in Ossy, and especially when the NatWest bank was on the corner at the top of his street, but the Civic Theatre was only a problem at nights when there was something going on. I think is about striking a even balance some how, but that is like knitting fog sometimes

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I agree that yellow lines would probably make the problem worse than it is now. Perhaps the only way to find out how the scheme would work is to reduce it and trial it in those areas where there is 'massive support'. The downside to this, of course, is that reducing the size of the scheme may not cover the admin and policing. Also the problem would then be shifted to the next street like the domino effect. But do they then decide to join the scheme ?

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It is something that we have thought of but to make the scheme workable it has to have a certain number of properties in it. We are looking at possibly extending the scheme to the other side of Whalley Road (Devonshire, Westwood etc) as they too are having horrendous problems with inconsiderate employees of the Mount.

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What exactly do you mean by inconsiderate parking Clare ?

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Did they not want to pay for it?

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Hard to say. Clare Pritchard talks of massive support in areas particularly affected, so obviously those people are prepared to pay. Maybe there are those that are not yet affected and so don't see a problem.

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I'm not saying residents only parking is a bad thing, trust me I know, I live accross from the Town Hall in Ossy! But if it does go ahead then where would people attending the hospital park? As the car park for the hospital has few spaces and they are always taken up by staff, due to problems during my pregnancy I had to attend the hospital on a regular basis and had no other option but to park on the streets around the hospital.

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Hopefully Clare will explain to us what happened as she is a member on here.

I would have thought the sensible option would have been to implement it on the streets with massive support. I will refrain from commenting though until Clare has filled us in on the details.

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Where abouts from the Town Hall (sorry Gayle civic Theatre:D) do you live Lolly?

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Milton Street

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I grew up in Monarch Street, and My Father lived there until he died 6 years ago