Bellend Sebastian Posted 11 October 2013 Posted 11 October 2013 I'm pissed off about it but only because I lived on Tyndale Street for 11 years and most of the long term residents there were begging for it, and now I've gone it's finally arrived. A majority voted for it back in 2004 but it got put on the back burner after some pretty vociferous whining from certain businesses on Narborough Road. Although some residents would moan about matchday parking (I wasn't one, of course, going to the games) the problem for ages has been people that work in the city centre parking up early doors and leaving their cars there all day. Don't quote me on this but I'm not sure the latest phase is 24 hours anyway, so for evening matches you might not have a problem
danny. Posted 11 October 2013 Posted 11 October 2013 Just looked at the map online, basically now covers every side street off N'boro road, I understand it must be a pain if you live around that area, but when are the government going to stop charging us road tax, as it won't be long before we can't take our cars off our own drive as there is no where to park them!!! This is really gonna pi$$ me off on night games or sunday matches as I have no option but to drive. Yea literally nowhere to park, because the only two destinations in the entire UK are your drive and the Narborough road area.
Freeman's Wharfer Posted 11 October 2013 Posted 11 October 2013 Ridiculous. I suppose this is meant to solve a problem but 'the problem' is for a few hours on a Saturday every couple of weeks for 9 months of the year. Is it really that much hassle if you can't park immediately outside of your house for a few hours? It's hardly a basic human right; the right to free speech, the right to vote, the right to a fair trial, the right to park outside your front door... Judging by how empty it is round there when it's university vacation periods half of those roads are filled by students anyway. The football club is a major part of this county and the local council shouldn't be making it harder for people to access than it already is. When local businesses and shop keepers are against this in such a busy commercial area then that should have been the decider. Let's face it, the area would be a whole lot less attractive to live in without the shops, bars and restaurants so their needs to maintain their livelihoods should take greater priority over that of someone to park outside their front door between 1pm and 6pm on a Saturday.
Trumpet Posted 11 October 2013 Posted 11 October 2013 I live on Haddenham Road (which isn't included) and to be honest it's fine on a matchday. The only time I struggle to park is after say 5pm weekdays when most people are home from work. Which just means I have to park further away from my house, doesn't really bother me. This will only push people further out, for example to my street and further as in all fairness, it's not far to walk. People will not park at the park and ride and get the bus into town.
Rich Fox Posted 18 October 2013 Posted 18 October 2013 Does anyone know when new parking restrictions will be put in place and what areas are affected please?
Bob Weasel Fox Posted 18 October 2013 Posted 18 October 2013 i live off narborough road and have difficulty parking on my own street let alone outside my own house due to visitors to the area. i am not in favour of the idea of parking permits ,but how else can local residents be helped in this situation suggestions on a postcard please I agree Rico, ive just moved from off the Narborough Road (Danvers Road) a couple of months ago and as a shift worker it was murder parking anywhere near my street for the 5 plus years my wife and lived there. There should be a park and ride to the stadium or something similar perhaps????
philce Posted 19 October 2013 Posted 19 October 2013 Does anyone know when new parking restrictions will be put in place and what areas are affected please? End of this month, basically the roads between Narborough Road, Fosse Road, Hinckley Road and Westleigh/Ivy Road. Check out the last page of this PDF there is a map. http://www.leicester.gov.uk/EasySiteWeb/GatewayLink.aspx?alId=189619
davieG Posted 19 October 2013 Author Posted 19 October 2013 http://www.foxestalk.co.uk/forums/topic/90678-more-parking-restrictions/?hl=parking
Collymore Posted 19 October 2013 Posted 19 October 2013 The bottom line is that if you pay your road tax you're just as eligible to park on a public street than any other road tax payer. The Mockery calling people inconsiderate is well out of order IMO.
AmysDad Posted 16 December 2013 Posted 16 December 2013 This has now started. A number of cars have penalty notices on them this morning.
MrSpaM Posted 16 December 2013 Posted 16 December 2013 Looks like I got my permit just in time. It took them an entire month just to acknowledge they'd received my application!
Al-aLondon-Foxile Posted 16 December 2013 Posted 16 December 2013 I appreciate those who live in surrounded roads deserve to be able to park where they live, but for me driving from London i'm now left with little choice but to add another £5 to my expenses to pay for parking, and make sure to get there early enough to secure a spot. Arse.
davieG Posted 14 July 2014 Author Posted 14 July 2014 ........and harder But people who live just outside the zone where a residents' permit or pay-and-display parking ticket are required said the problem had now moved to their streets. As a result, the council has agreed to widen the permit zone to streets between Fosse Road South and Sykefield Avenue, as well as a section of Westcotes Drive. From November, residents in those streets will need a £25 annual permit to park. In a consultation, 72 per cent of respondents in those streets said they wanted the scheme. In streets where most respondents did not want it, permits will not be introduced. Read more: http://www.leicestermercury.co.uk/Parking-permits-scheme-extended/story-21460285-detail/story.html#ixzz37QVN0B1eRead more at http://www.leicestermercury.co.uk/Parking-permits-scheme-extended/story-21460285-detail/story.html#iS3XluPxmCxVJmIY.99
savillefoxes Posted 14 July 2014 Posted 14 July 2014 Maybe it is time the powers that be started to set on football buses from the park and rides we have around Leicester. Drop you off as near to the ground as deemed possible and pick up from the same place. If they charged a few quid I think people would find this very appealing.as long as they put plenty of buses on. Thoughts people.
Guest MarshallForEngland Posted 14 July 2014 Posted 14 July 2014 I can understand why local residents might be angry. I mean, how inconvenient it must be that you can't park your car outside your house for a few hours once or twice a fortnight for some of the year. I happen to live near a school, and during term time there are at least several cars parked on my street on a daily basis during picking-up and dropping-off time. I've had to wait slightly to get my car in there before, it's outrageous.
promised land Posted 14 July 2014 Posted 14 July 2014 Maybe it is time the powers that be started to set on football buses from the park and rides we have around Leicester. Drop you off as near to the ground as deemed possible and pick up from the same place. If they charged a few quid I think people would find this very appealing.as long as they put plenty of buses on. Thoughts people. Good idea but are the park and ride car parks big enough? Enderby probably is but Braunstones doesn't look that big and half of Birstalls is cordoned off with barriers. Plus the shoppers would moan like hell, I have contemplated using the Birstall one on midweek games but the last bus is something like 7:30pm out of town. No doubt this season will be harder for parking due to the crowd, also haven't the Tigers cut their car park in half in recent years, that was the one I used but it seems full now within an hour of kick off.
davieG Posted 14 July 2014 Author Posted 14 July 2014 I can understand why local residents might be angry. I mean, how inconvenient it must be that you can't park your car outside your house for a few hours once or twice a fortnight for some of the year. I happen to live near a school, and during term time there are at least several cars parked on my street on a daily basis during picking-up and dropping-off time. I've had to wait slightly to get my car in there before, it's outrageous. They used to run pass the LRI when the Enderby one first opened but now it doesn't so you'd need to go into town. One of the bus companies used to run them from various out of town locations but I think they packed it in presumable because it was not making a profit. Besides they put big restrictions one when you can arrive and leave.
foxgas Posted 14 July 2014 Posted 14 July 2014 If you want your own parking spot buy a house with a drive or take your chance like every one else. I think that anyone who votes for extra taxes to park on their own street instead of occasional planned disruption is deluded. It seems that Birstall and Enderby park and rides are losing money hand over fist but those jobsworths at the council don't have the gumption to open them for evening or Sunday games but prefer the council tax payers to subsidise them.
davieG Posted 5 August 2014 Author Posted 5 August 2014 This might help some people. Shame they stopped it in the first place though. The city council is to change a bus route to make it easier for people to get to Leicester Royal Infirmary. The move has been welcomed by health campaigners, who have been lobbying for change for more than five years. From the end of September, the Enderby park-and-ride service will be rerouted to take in Leicester Royal Infirmary. The change has been announced by Leicester's deputy city mayor, Councillor Rory Palmer, who is also chairman of the city's health and wellbeing board. He is hoping the extra passengers will help to secure the future of the route after it was revealed the park-and-ride service was being subsidised to the tune of about £664,000. Coun Palmer said: "I am very pleased this is going to happen. "It has the potential to be a really useful service and I hope it will alleviate some of the congestion at the infirmary. This is not the full solution, there are still a lot of big challenges, but I am pleased the city council has been able to make this contribution. "It is an example of doing what we said we would. "It does still have to be approved by the traffic commissioners, but I am sure it will be agreed." Geoff Smith and Zuffar Haq are members of the Leicester Mercury Patients' Panel, who have been fighting for change. Mr Smith said: "I am delighted the link with one of the three park-and-ride services, the infirmary and Leicester's hospitals' Hopper service is to be restored. "I hope it will be publicised and well-used and will help patients, carers and visitors." The bus from Enderby will stop at the infirmary before going on to St Nicholas Circle and along Hinckley Road and Lubbesthorpe Way to Grove Park and Enderby. Mr Haq said: "This is fantastic news. It will help ease parking problems at the hospital as well as being cheaper and easier for patients and visitors. "The change will also help to ease traffic congestion in the city centre. "This is something the panel has been campaigning for over a number of years and I am so glad we have finally got to this stage. "It is only part of the solution, but I hope it will be advertised effectively and we will be pushing for it to be advertised with all outpatient appointments. "We would also like the Birstall and Meynell's Gorse routes connected with the infirmary." A spokesman from Leicester's hospitals said: "We fully support any changes made by the council to the park-and-ride routes in Leicester which will ease parking pressures at the infirmary." Read more: http://www.leicestermercury.co.uk/Hospital-patients-benefit-bus-route-rethink/story-22073618-detail/story.html#ixzz39XF6ulvORead more at http://www.leicestermercury.co.uk/Hospital-patients-benefit-bus-route-rethink/story-22073618-detail/story.html#v58HMCirK8PpueLx.99
davieG Posted 17 October 2014 Author Posted 17 October 2014 Work is set to begin this weekend on a new residents’ parking scheme in Leicester’s West End. The existing Westcotes Residents’ Parking scheme is being extended to include some nearby streets in Western Park, from Sunday. Road markings will be painted and road signs erected in time for the scheme to take effect on November 17. It follows a public consultation last April, which the city council said showed “strong support” for the scheme, which will see anyone parking in the area during the day, from Monday to Saturday, fined unless they display a valid permit. A council spokesman said: “It will include the streets between Fosse Road South and Sykefield Avenue, as well as a section of Westcotes Drive. “In all, just over 43 per cent of people in that area took part in the consultation, 72 per cent of which backed the idea.” However, some residents who oppose the scheme have claimed the consultation was flawed and did not accurately reflect most people’s views. Jan Flaherty, 44, who lives in Barclay Street, has started her own petition to gauge what she said were residents’ “true opinions”. She said: “In just a day, I’ve collected more than 100 signatures. “The council say 43 per cent responded, but that is extraordinarily high. “In my road alone, every person I’ve spoken to is against the scheme.” The scheme will run as an experimental traffic regulation order for 18 months, before potentially becoming permanent in May 2016. The consultation asked residents in Western Park if they wanted to be included in a similar scheme covering roads west of Narborough Road, in the Westcotes ward since October 2013. The council spokesman said: “Some residents had raised concerns that the Westcotes scheme had displaced parking from the West End into Western Park. “As a result, we agreed to introduce a residents’ parking scheme in a limited part of Western Park where support for a scheme was strongest.” He added: “The area mainly includes terraced housing with no private parking, and which already borders onto the existing Westcotes scheme. “Remaining areas of Western Park which were included in the consultation were either opposed to a scheme or offered too few responses for any scheme to be considered.” Mrs Flaherty said: “They are just moving the problem on and introducing residents parking across the city by increment.” She added: “My research suggests a lot more people are opposed to resident’s parking than the council realise, but we are being dismissed and ignored. “The council should look again.” Beaconsfield Road resident Kirti Sharma, 36, who opposes the scheme, said: “This scheme will be useless. The parking problem is in the evenings and at weekends, not during the day, in any case.” Western Park city councillor Sue Barton said: “It was residents not included in the Westcotes scheme who contacted the council unhappy that their street was not included. “I understand there are some people opposed to it, but support in the consultation was overwhelming.” She added: “As someone who lives in one of the streets on the edge of the new scheme, I realise there is a danger of the parking problem being moved on. “But we have to do something. And if issues do arise in the next 18 months, the highways department will be able to address them.” Read more: http://www.leicestermercury.co.uk/Work-set-begin-new-residents-8217-parking-scheme/story-23230661-detail/story.html#ixzz3GPqejIuR Follow us: @Leicester_Merc on Twitter | leicestermercury on FacebookRead more at http://www.leicestermercury.co.uk/Work-set-begin-new-residents-8217-parking-scheme/story-23230661-detail/story.html#wFs0uYq1dIt2ZgwK.99
davieG Posted 20 July 2015 Author Posted 20 July 2015 Sports fans prompt campaign for new parking rules around Leicester By Tom_Mack | Posted: July 20, 2015 Sports fans prompt campaign for new parking rules around Leicester Comments (0)A new campaign has been launched for residents-only parking around the King Power Stadium. An online petition has been launched to tackle "dangerous and careless" parking by both rugby and football fans on match days on the roads between Aylestone Road and Saffron Lane. The petition, which had only attracted 12 signatures at the time of going to press, states: "In recent years the King Power stadium has enabled attendances of 32,000 and the new west wing of the Tigers stadium will increase the capacity of the stadium to 26,000 without adequate provision for car parking. "This causes overspill and potentially dangerous parking practices in Aylestone Park. "With further development planned and the hosting of the rugby world cup in September 2015 this situation is likely to get worse." Bill Shelton, who has been a councillor for the area for 12 years, said: "A number of years ago there were problems with match day parking in certain streets and some of the residents called for a vote on introducing a residents' parking scheme. "The turnout for the vote was abysmal and it was voted against so it never happened. "I understand there's been another call for residents parking but people are often against it when they find out they have to pay for it and they're still not guaranteed a space near their house." Residents in the area had mixed views. Shirley Grant, 60, of Brooksby Street, said: "The parking is really bad around here but I want my family to be able to come and visit so I don't want it to be residents only. "We have two cars and just make do by parking where we can." Alice Morris, 22, of Hughenden Drive, said: "It's a nightmare on match days and I think we definitely need residents-only parking. "People who work in the city centre park here in the week and on match days it's so busy you could never get a fire engine down here. "I'm always having to park around the corner." To sign the petition click on "ePetitions" at www.cabinet.leicester.gov.uk/ Read more: http://www.leicestermercury.co.uk/Sports-fans-prompt-campaign-new-parking-rules/story-27447950-detail/story.html#ixzz3gQRBk274 Follow us: @Leicester_Merc on Twitter | leicestermercury on Facebook
Wymsey Posted 20 July 2015 Posted 20 July 2015 In some ways I wished we had the stadium near Fosse Park (that side of the M1, as initially proposed), be much more ways for fans to leave. It's like Tetris on matchdays, now.
Langley Posted 20 July 2015 Posted 20 July 2015 In some ways I wished we had the stadium near Fosse Park (that side of the M1, as initially proposed), be much more ways for fans to leave. It's like Tetris on matchdays, now. Only for those that side of the city. No real parking that side. You'd have people parking at thrope astley and walking down that duel carridgeway.
howlinmadmurfdoc Posted 20 July 2015 Posted 20 July 2015 The park and rides should be incorporated more into providing transport for the football, on Saturday afternoons the one at birstall is barely a quarter full,
Recommended Posts
Archived
This topic is now archived and is closed to further replies.