50 signatures reached
To: Highways Agency
Proposed Parking Restrictions on Union Street, Stow.
Not to impose parking restrictions on Union Street.
Why is this important?
We wish to object to the proposed parking restrictions on the following grounds:
1 - Primarily Safety - the currently parked cars provide a very obvious traffic calming effect while the imposition of the restrictions would increase traffic speed and endanger local residents.
2 - The removal of the parking spaces would exacerbate the problem of the loss of all the parking we formerly enjoyed in the old Ashton House so that people particularly at the western end of Union Street frequently have to walk from the very opposite end of Union Street if they can find parking on the street at all.
3 - When the plans for the new estate were in planning and subject to consultation, traffic access to the estate was approved on the basis of the current layout. If it was acceptable then, why is it not acceptable now?
4 - As the meeting in February showed, the residents of Union Street are entirely against this proposed plan so for whose benefit is it?
1 - Primarily Safety - the currently parked cars provide a very obvious traffic calming effect while the imposition of the restrictions would increase traffic speed and endanger local residents.
2 - The removal of the parking spaces would exacerbate the problem of the loss of all the parking we formerly enjoyed in the old Ashton House so that people particularly at the western end of Union Street frequently have to walk from the very opposite end of Union Street if they can find parking on the street at all.
3 - When the plans for the new estate were in planning and subject to consultation, traffic access to the estate was approved on the basis of the current layout. If it was acceptable then, why is it not acceptable now?
4 - As the meeting in February showed, the residents of Union Street are entirely against this proposed plan so for whose benefit is it?
How it will be delivered
Emailed to the Gloucestershire County Council as an attachment and link, and also at the next council meeting for the Planning, Traffic and Parking Committee on Tuesday 22nd May.
