A new parking zone is edging closer for the Aldrington, Nevill and Goldstone Valley area of Hove.
Brighton and Hove City Council posted about the proposal on Facebook, along with the time, date and venue for a drop-in information session.
The council said: “Local residents and businesses in the Aldrington and Nevill area of the city are being invited to a public drop-in and information session to learn more about proposals for a new controlled parking scheme and to help shape its development.
“The session will provide an opportunity for people living and working within the proposed scheme area, which includes the Aldrington, Orchards, Nevill and Goldstone Valley communities, to speak directly with council officers about the proposals, local parking issues and challenges and ask questions.”
The information session is due to take place at the Bishop Hannington Church lounge, in Nevill Avenue, by the corner of Holmes Avenue, Hove, on Tuesday 29 September.
The council said: “The event will operate as a drop-in session rather than a formal public meeting. Drop in at any time between 4pm and 8pm.
“Residents will be able to attend at any point during the session, view street maps, discuss issues affecting their area and provide feedback directly to officers ahead of a formal consultation.
“To help manage the event and ensure attendees have the opportunity to speak with officers, a sign-in process will be in place on arrival to take names and addresses.
“This will help us to better understand which roads and areas are being represented. Depending on attendance levels, access may need to be managed to ensure the venue remains safe and comfortable for visitors.
“Feedback gathered during the session will help inform the development of proposals.
“Any future controlled parking scheme would be subject to a separate formal consultation process, providing further opportunities for residents and businesses to have their say.”
Labour councillor Trevor Muten, the council’s cabinet member for transport and city infrastructure, said: “This session is an opportunity for local residents and businesses to engage with us at an early stage and help shape the development of proposals for the area.
“We want to hear directly from people who experience parking challenges in their community and understand what is working well and what could be improved.
“The drop-in format will allow people to have constructive conversations with officers, look at detailed information about their streets and share their views in a way that helps shape future proposals.”
Earlier this year, Councillor Muten said: “The timescale for introducing controlled parking to an area is approximately 18 months.”
He said that any scheme for the area would be likely to be implemented during the summer or autumn of next year.
If the scheme is approved, it is likely to cover the roads near Aldrington railway station, north of the railway line, such as Aldrington Avenue, Amherst Crescent, Lullington Avenue and Milcote Avenue.
Other roads that could become part of a controlled parking zone include Nevill Avenue, Nevill Road, Holmes Avenue, Orchard Road, Orchard Gardens, Orchard Close and Goldstone Crescent.
Gripes have included the long-term parking of campervans and large vehicles as well as commuter parking from office workers at Legal and General to passengers using Hove and Aldrington railway stations.
Some fed up residents asked if they could join the zone P light-touch scheme which covers the streets from Hove Park to Withdean.
Currently, the price of a 12-month resident permit in Brighton and Hove ranges from £127.75 to £456.25 depending on the area and vehicle emissions.
The council said that the proposed controlled parking scheme would
- improve parking for residents and businesses
- reduce commuter and long-stay parking displacement
- improve road safety and visibility at junctions
- support access for visitors, services and disabled users
- manage traffic and congestion
- ensure parking arrangements are fair, enforceable and financially sustainable
- support wider transport, environmental and neighbourhood objectives
All part of the Transport Dept at BHCC agenda to roll out a cpz citywide
Otherwise you’d have what we’re already seeing; parking being pushed onto free zones. Should have citywide parking management. That’s one of the fairest ways of doing it.
Aldrington residents have overwhelmingly rejected such a scheme twice before.
Our roads are too narrow for such a scheme not to significantly reduce already scarce on street parking.
Including us in a proposal largely featuring much wider roads feels like an underhand way of forcing an unwanted zone through on our streets.
Roads like Aldrington ave are too narrow for parking spaces on both sides, meaning double yellows on one side and the loss of residents driveway parking. A guesstimate – this would probably reduce available parking spots by 60% and residents would pay for that privilege. I’m not sure how this even works – if there is a sudden drastic shortfall in parking and permit spots elsewhere I doubt we could ever park anywhere?.
Can’t wait, the half on half off the pavement is a shambles, free up the pavements for people. Nearly all the houses already have driveways in the area so it’s virtually all second cars, train station parking and long term car dumping clogging up or pavements. When moda and the other Sackville estate ‘car free’ developments are fully occupied without permit parking the situation is going to be a nightmare.
How about keeping life simple with a a single price, single zone for the whole city and stop removing the paid parking bays BHCC have already sold several times over? Plus plenty of visitor for our visitors and disabled parking bays!
Because different areas have different levels of demand. And visitors can use Visitors Permits.
Why should demand make a difference? The council is not legally allowed to profiteer from parking beyond earning a modest surplus. In fact it would give residents more freedom to park beyond a “high demand” area without getting a PCN if it’s full!
Because it discourages visitors parking in high demand areas, leaving the spaces open for residents of the city.
This is the creeping disease that BHCC has it’s a virus,they cannot help themselves how to pinch more and more from the tax payer I said when they started to narrow roads in the pretext of the same old rhetoric and introduced paid parking bay zones they would not stop it’s pure prostitution for making money ,because its useless how to run the city, they must have an office where they come up with hairbrain schemes there must be a law stating that roads should a certain width for cars to be able to pass each other ,most roads are so narrow you can’t do it,when parking bays are not being used ,,you can then see what actual room cars have,,when theres a car parked in the bays you have to give way,either car!!! That’s not right ,cars pay enough to use roads,this council is a nonsense, incapable, money wasting,bunch of cretins,who take pleasure in knowing they have upset the populace
Thing is, saying stuff like that is just emotive rhetoric, and most people are just going to discard that as such. We should hold ourselves to a higher standard of criticism.
Another day ~ Another tax
Only if you can afford or need a car to park. There are plenty of alternatives, such as busses, trains, cycling or walking. If you have mobility issues and are reliant on a vehicle, you can apply for a designated parking space.
As I said….. Meaning the normal, healthy, taxpaying citizen of this city……..
ANOTHER DAY ~ ANOTHER TAX
No, not the “normal, healthy, taxpaying citizen” but a minority of “normal, healthy taxpaying citizens” who are vehicle owners!
Rubbish.
Working class people need vehicles to WORK
Nonsense! How many commuters use busses and trains, especially in the rush-hour? What about workers who can’t drive? The list goes on but I don’t think that I need to labour the point.
Nonsense! How many commuters use busses and trains, especially in the rush-hour? What about workers who can’t drive? The list goes on but I don’t think that I need to labour the point.
Yes please. Roads around aldrington station look like a carpark full of abandoned vehicles and ones that aren’t moved for weeks. Residents also need to consider if they need multiple cars per household- some need them but some are just used to them.
Really? I haven’t seen many abandoned vehicles on these roads at all. Arguably it will be much more like a car park if there are restrictions, in fact almost exactly like a car park with bays and paying to park.
2 factors.
1. As the parking zones have been implemented, it has pushed long-term dumping of camper vans and work vans for long periods to the “free” streets – particularly Nevill Avenue – a residential street with a high traffic of school kids each way.
2. Developments being built without car parking – an immense snobbery by developers and council under the auspice of “green” policy. The reality is that even if a person can commute around town to work or school by public transport, households need and use cars for big family shops, for visiting relatives in the holidays, for taking kids to and from sports events, and everything in-between. The car may sit there for a week or more, but it is snobbery to build developments with someone else dictating ” They don’t need parking. They can use public transport”.
You make some really valid points, free zones do get inundated as zones are implemented. Realistically, I think everything in the city should be a parking zone, even if nominally to counter that. The alternative is a free-for-all, which…would be a free-for-all.
I agree with you that properties do need to have some parking consideration as part of their development. It’s not realistic that no-one uses a vehicle, so there’s a balance to be had there. For me, the cost of privately owning a car is far less expensive, and it is impractical to use public transport, as I often have to off-road, and transport potentially dangerous gear securely. Brighton does pretty well in active transport measures; car ownership hasn’t changed much, when other similar places have seen increases.
The council has repeatedly expanded controlled parking zones without adequately addressing the resulting displacement of vehicles into neighbouring unrestricted areas such as Portslade. Portslade is already experiencing significant pressure from commuter parking, campervans and commercial vehicle storage. Introducing additional zones in Hove risks worsening these problems unless a robust strategy is in place to manage displacement and protect surrounding communities
If this scheme is implemented it will reduce available parking spaces drastically, making it costly and difficult for residents, visitors and tradespeople to park. As a resident there would be literally no benefit to me.
The article doesn’t mention the time. It is 16:00 – 18:00 at Bishop Hannington Church on 29/9.
If you live in the area or work/visit & cannot make the meeting do email me ivan.lyons@brighton-hove.gov.uk as I am colating responses to Council Officers.