Resident Parking Scheme and my property

fairsfair

Hi - I would appreciate hearing from anyone who has professional or personal experiences of residential parking schemes.

Firstly - my local council is proposing to introduce this scheme from what research I have done these proposals always go ahead - has anyone managed to stop one?

Secondly has anyone any knowledge of these schemes having an affect on house prices? I think it would devalue my property.

Now for the rant.. I have no problem parking for 10 years and don't feel there is a parking problem and we have a car and 2 works vehicles. We pay council and road tax - this parking scheme just feels like another tax.

tek-monkey

I have mates desperate for a parking scheme, as people using the trains steal all the spaces outside their houses meaning they have to pay to park in a nearby supermarket instead.

Maybe your car and 2 work vehicles are annoying the others? Can everyone else park outside their own property?

pinkshoes

Not Oxford is it?? They're currently suggesting parking restrictions in a couple of streets and the residents seem unhappy.

People in one area of Oxford managed to overturn the council's decision to have parking permits, so it can be done, but you will probably need the support of the whole street. Why not go door to door and speak to your neighbours?

pie81

There's a residents parking scheme in my area and I think it generally is seen as a good thing by buyers as it reassures them that they will be able to park rather than turning them off. Doesn't necessarily increase prices but it's a reassurance as I say. That said, my area is a busy inner london area and there would be loads of commuters parking if there was no resi scheme - may be different where you live.

mlz1413

My street is under threat of CPZ(controlled parking zone) rather than RPZ (residents parking zone), in general everyone gets parked and at worst has to go to the swimming pool carpark at the further point of our terrace streets.

Opinion is split as many think it will free up spaces the town workers take in the daytime and stop a local garage from using our streets as his overflow car park.

BUT if any scheme comes in you cannot park in the turning circles or 3m before or 1m from the edges of road junctions so we will lose approx 100 parking spaces 10 roads, I realise these are not meant to be spaces but at 11pm or later they do get used.

I agree it creates extra revenue for the council but our permits are £15 for the first car so I think that is really reasonable, obviously for the OP it will be expensive as the fees escalate so 3 vehicles will be expensive.

fairsfair

Thanks for you rcomments so far.
I live in north Wales just outside the town centre. There are no commuters and the only area there is sometimes a problem is a the top end of the street where people park their cars to go to the doctors surgery and during the week to drop off and pick up children from school.

the fee will be £80 per annum for one vehicle and £130 for 2. The will not be permitted. Sounds reasonable to pay £15 per year.

juliescot

tek-monkey wrote: »

I have mates desperate for a parking scheme, as people using the trains steal all the spaces outside their houses meaning they have to pay to park in a nearby supermarket instead.

Maybe your car and 2 work vehicles are annoying the others? Can everyone else park outside their own property?

Do they have dedicated spaces that they actually pay for and own?

If they do I am sure they could make them secure, e.g lockable poles in the ground, but if it is just on street parking then is it sadly just tough luck as they have no more right to park in front of their property than anyone else.

Rimo2021

We have a scheme - it didn't put me off buying at all and I'm quite happy paying £80 p/a to keep the city-centre workers/visitors from parking here..

edgex

fairsfair wrote: »

Hi - I would appreciate hearing from anyone who has professional or personal experiences of residential parking schemes.

Firstly - my local council is proposing to introduce this scheme from what research I have done these proposals always go ahead - has anyone managed to stop one?

Secondly has anyone any knowledge of these schemes having an affect on house prices? I think it would devalue my property.

Now for the rant.. I have no problem parking for 10 years and don't feel there is a parking problem and we have a car and 2 works vehicles. We pay council and road tax - this parking scheme just feels like another tax.

well, someone must think that there is an issue with parking.

do you have driveways, or does everyone have to park on the road?

also, slightly off-topic, but shouldnt work vehicles be parked at work?

olly300

fairsfair wrote: »

Hi - I would appreciate hearing from anyone who has professional or personal experiences of residential parking schemes.

Firstly - my local council is proposing to introduce this scheme from what research I have done these proposals always go ahead - has anyone managed to stop one?

I live in an area that initially wasn't part of the residents parking scheme. However 70% of the areas nearby were.

I live 10 minutes walk from a hospital, opposite a primary school, 5 minutes walk from another primary school and 6-10 minutes walk from a train station. Plus 15 minutes walk from the town centre.

So when I moved into my property I found that I couldn't park if I went out for half a day, or if I didn't leave before 7am each morning I risked being blocked in due to the layout of the parking.

fairsfair wrote: »

Secondly has anyone any knowledge of these schemes having an affect on house prices? I think it would devalue my property.

However I brought my flat with the knowledge that the parking scheme was being introduced. The people who lived here discovered that people would park their work vans etc here because it's the only place they didn't have to pay to get a permit.

When I lived here for 8 months and wasn't getting any information from the council I contacted a local councillor who gave me the road map for the implementation of the scheme, which was to occur in another 6 months.

They had to do a public consultation by putting up notices on all the lamp posts in the area and putting a notice in the local paper.

Subsequently another area that was to be included in the scheme, near another primary school, got the times of operation changed in their area. So their restrictions are from 8.30 - 3.30pm instead of 6.30pm. (The restrictions where originally until 5.30pm but they made them later as this was still causing problems.)

Before moving to my current address I lived near a tube station. The resident's parking scheme there operated 2 hours a day from Monday to Friday. From 10-11am and 3-4pm. This prevented commuters parking all day.

Near my brother they have a road that only has parking restrictions from 11-12 Monday to Saturday. This is enough to stop commuters parking but not people like me who know they have to pay when they visit someone if they don't park there.

fairsfair wrote: »

Now for the rant.. I have no problem parking for 10 years and don't feel there is a parking problem and we have a car and 2 works vehicles. We pay council and road tax - this parking scheme just feels like another tax.

I suggest if other areas near by are to be included in the scheme you least ensure your area has parking restricts for two different hours a day.

Otherwise you will find people parking on your road and you won't be able to park at all.

The permits are cheaper if you don't have long parking hours and to be honest where I lived before it worked out cheaper for me to get day parking permits than to buy a yearly permit as I wasn't there during the hours of operation. And when I went on holiday I just parked my car elsewhere.