#City & Town Planning
Target:
Havering Council
Region:
United Kingdom

As a way of background, there are 23 shops making up the retail parade along Hornchurch Road between Northdown Road and Perbeck Road. These shops are all small, family run, independent shops that rely primarily on repeat, visiting customers from the local community. Our trading times have been established to support the shopping needs of our customers. These trading times like most shops, peak at certain times of the day, between 4pm and 6pm. Monday through to Saturday.
There are pay and display parking bays along this stretch of the road and this facility to park outside the shops is without doubt of benefit to the customers that use these shops. However the restrictions on the times to pay and park is causing significant financial impact to the individual shops during a time of retail hardship. It seems unfair to these shops that, at the most busiest and productive times of the day, parking is prohibited and we as a community choose to harm our own businesses with self imposed restrictions and penalties.
For our older customers, and parents with little children, convenience of parking is the sole reason to visit this parade of shops. To continue to prohibit parking at the busiest time of the day for the shops will eventually lead to the parades demise. The Council has asked for a petition to show the level of concern as it believes the restrictions and signage are not misleading.

We, the undersigned are customers of the shops located between Northdown Road and Perbeck Road, The restrictions on the parking times have, and continue to have an impact on our decision to shop there. The parking signage is misleading as to when you can and cannot park in the parking bays. With static signage saying one thing and the parking meter display displaying another. To obtain an unfair parking ticket due to this confusion and the restrictions on parking times does impact my decision as to when I shop there. I fully support the local shop keepers in their action to establish a workable solution with the council to the problem of misinformation of parking rules leading to unfair parking penalties imposed on their customers.

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The Unfair Parking Restrictions and Ticketing of Customers visiting local Shops petition to Havering Council was written by East Coast Music and is in the category City & Town Planning at GoPetition.