Relief Road to take some Garden and apply Residents parking

Lady_K

There are plans to build an inner relief road through the car park at the end of my garden. It's been planned for years I'm totally against it but can't do anything about it. They have purchased several houses in its planned path already and mine is the only house in this street that will be affected as its the longest garden. I knew about it when I moved here about it 20 years ago but it was always talked about and never happened. I didn't mind if I got compensated as the garden is fairly big. The amount I'm planned to lose now though is smaller and in a way it's not going to get enough compensation for the inconvenience I feel. I'd rather them take none or more to be honest.

I am concerned about the noise from the road and the fumes from cars, I'm concerned about what they will replace the very strong tall fence that is there now and the removal of at least 2 very big trees that I love. I don't think we need a relief road at all its meant to encourage people to the town but tescos put a stop to our town when it opened a few years ago I don't believe anything will recover the town apart from closing tesco down..

The council have also approached the street about residents parking, we have zero problem at the moment but they are saying that when the relief road is there people will park in our street. They have apparently told us there will only be this one chance to vote for residents parking. I don't want it, it will spoil the street and the road isn't there yet. I don't believe they can offer us this one time chance to get residents parking. The residents that went to the meeting have voted for weekday but not everyone went including myself. I think we should be given the chance to see how things are when the inner relief road actually is there.

Debt_Free_Chick

If it's your fence and they remove it, they'll have to put it back or replace it with a similar one.

Parking - not a lot you can do. It's a Public Highway. I can't see how it will "spoil the street". Surely you just get a disc to put in the windscreen and few notices to warn others - maybe a post at the entrance to the street?

lynnexxxo

Have you considered that if you vote against residents parking permits you my find that you will have nowhere to park?

Lady_K

Does anyone know how I go about compensation though for the noise and fumes and losing the trees and bit of land?

The fence I don't know exactly who owns it but its at the end of my garden with no other houses beyond it. There werent any houses there before the car park was built, it was just land doing nothing. It did have a fence before that but the council replaced it with a really thick tall wooden fence its prob about 8ft or 9ft tall but it stands much taller as the ground raises at the bottom. They did this to prevent people getting over the wall from the carpark.

As for the parking they were talking about yellow lines and residents parking can be inconvenient and put people off when your trying to sell I think. We have also been told that they cant guarantee a parking space for everyone. My daughter had problems at her university residence with residence parking it does have its problems.

What I don't understand is why the council can give us this one chance only now or never choice to get it when the road is not even there yet and might not even happen. The car park at the rear of my property is almost always empty because the council put a pay to park system in there so we get people parking on our street anyway but its no problem whatsoever. Once they put residents parking in the steet though they will go and pay to park in there I guess

Lady_K

lynnexxxo wrote: »

Have you considered that if you vote against residents parking permits you my find that you will have nowhere to park?

I cannot honestly see it will ever be like that, the carpark is almost always empty so what cars there are likely to be parking in our street already are really and I believe the new road will cut the town off even more so there could be even less cars then. What I don't agree with is that the council aren't giving us the chance to see how it goes first even if its for a few weeks trial once the relief road has been built. If they put the residents parking in now only then will the cars park in the council car park till the road is completed and that might not happen