According to the above Southwark website, residents will not be allowed to make an informed decision on whether they want a CPZ or not. No plans, no discussion on types of bay or enforcement times until after the council has made the irreversible decision to go ahead.
This is really quite underhand. Superficially this is presented as an open consultation, which it is anything but. During the last two North Dulwich CPZ consultations in 2002 and 2005 detailed plans were made available before the public were asked to vote. Both times a CPZ was comprehensively rejected when residents realised the full implications. What Southwark council seem to have learnt from this is not that North Dulwich may not want a CPZ but that in order to get the decision it wants (clearly the public are not to be trusted) you have to deny residents vital information until it is too late. A much shorter consultation period (less than a month!) makes matters even worse.
I think this tactic is indefensible and profoundly dishonest. Or does someone have a more benign explanation for not making detailed (albeit preliminary) plans available as in the past?
