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To: Councillor Chris Barnham, Crofton Park Labour Party Cabinet Member
Stop the Crofton Park CPZ
This petition opposes Lewisham Council’s plans to implement a CPZ in the Crofton Park area as it will have a detrimental affect on residents within the proposed area/s and surrounding areas including:
• Stillness Road
• Bexhill Road
• Salehurst Road
• Rushford Road
• Crofton Park Road
• Brightling Road
• Ewhurst Road
• Manwood Road
Parking has not been identified as an issue for residents, which shows a huge gap and a lack of concern and understanding between the Council and the real issues facing its residents.
Why is this important?
The CPZ does not:
• Address safety, the main concern for residents*
• Propose safe crossing points for school children notably for Prendergast School children crossing Manwood Road
• Tackle dangerous driving behaviours particularly from those using local roads as cut-throughs to reduce their journey time
• Improve the safety of pedestrians and cyclists
The CPZ does:
• Impose additional costs on residents in the middle of a cost of living crisis
• Increase bureaucracy and stress for residents
• Reduce parking spaces for the schemes sake e.g. at the top of Bexhill Road
• Cite CPZ existing in other inner London areas as a justification to implement it
• Create unnecessary stress for residents as parking spaces are reduced and people scramble for space
• Remove trees and replace them with new – trees have a high failure rate when planted new and if sustainability is a key council priority, this proposal runs counter to this.
The section 8 area and surrounds are very neighbourly and have a wonderful community feel. We are voicing our disappointment that the Council has failed to invest time and effort in bringing a proposal forward to improve the neighbourhood further by tackling the real issues.
We oppose the CPZ and call for proposals that genuinely and comprehensively address safety.
See details of the proposal in Cabinet meeting decision papers: https://councilmeetings.lewisham.gov.uk/documents/s105243/Sustainable+Transport+and+Parking+Improvements+report.pdf
*There does appear to be one element within the CPZ that potentially addresses safety and that is the proposed parking bans at the junction of Codrington Hill, Stillness and Crofton Park Roads. Applied in the correct way, this will increase the field of vision of drivers and pedestrians helping to reduce collisions at this hot spot.
