End Heaton’s Parking Chaos
We, residents of the Heaton Terraces between Heaton Road and Newington Road, would like to bring the following to the attention of Newcastle Council:
- Our area is probably the closest area to the centre of town without parking controls, meaning that our residential streets are used as a free car park by many commuters;
- In addition, we have a large number of short-term rental shared houses (HMOs), where one property can have up to five vehicles parked at the kerb;
- These two factors mean our streets are jammed with parked cars and those looking for parking spaces; this will thwart moves towards Low Traffic Neighbourhoods;
- Several previous attempts to introduce parking permits have failed to meet the Council's thresholds at consultation;
- The detailed results of those consultations show that streets with a high concentration of HMOs also have the highest level of objections;
- Therefore we are in a Catch-22 situation which makes the quality of life of long-term residents a misery.
We call on the Council to establish a panel of Councillors (ie a RASC) to consider whether parking permits should be implemented in our area of Heaton, to bring us in to line with demographically similar neighbourhoods such as Sandyford.
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