STOPS petition presented to the Parish Council
I hear that the Stop The Odiham Parking Scheme petition was presented to the Parish Council at their meeting on Monday.
Incredibly, over 800 people have signed this petition in a very short time. This number includes over 70% of residents living in the central zone who will be hit by taxes and restrictions, over 300 retail and business owners, staff and customers, and 300 living just outside the zone but fear being overwhelmed with more people trying to park outside their houses.
With this level of response, I can't see any reason the Parish Council can possibly have for continuing with this scheme rejected by the community - unless their real plan is simply to raise more revenue through taxes using permits, fines and parking charges!
Personally, I congratulate John Fletcher, Gordon Wrenn and Brian Fleming for their hard work on STOPS - and hope that it stops the PC wasting more of people's time and public money on this. There are real solutions out there!
STOPS PETITION.
# We await with bated breath the outcome of the STOPS petition and the final decision on the parking scheme.
# While not pretending to understand the complex, indeed arcane, merits & demerits of the scheme, our understanding is that it does not provide significant, if any, incremental parking in the village. This surely is the real need?
# May we expect some information/debate on this/the new Parish Council web site as to what additional parking facilities have been considered and are still under consideration and what future plans are, if any?
Brian and Jackie Sinnatt,
Queensmead,
140, High Street,
Odiham RG29 1LT.