CPZs are a creeping cancer much loved of local authorities like Southwark

As far as I am concerned, this third attempt in as many years to bounce the residents in the North Dulwich Triangle into accepting a CPZ is a disgraceful waste of council tax payers money. The residents sent a resounding ‘No’ to Southwark in both of the last two council bids to impose CPZ and yet Southwark continues to put out glossy ‘so-called’ consultation booklets trying to sell the concept.

CPZs are a creeping cancer much loved of local authorities like Southwark. CPZs are a growing revenue earner for councils. From the results of the recent petition conducted in every street in the North Dulwich Triangle, it remains abundantly clear that the majority of people do not want it.

The consultation document is blatantly biased in favour of a CPZ and should therefore be binned. Not only that, key questions in the council questionnaire are incorrect and the instructions on how to fill it in are also wrong.

While extolling the virtues of CPZs, the council booklet avoids highlighting that it plans to ease a parking problem by reducing the number of parking bays available – even for residents.

This whole exercise is a thoroughly reprehensible example of high-handed bureaucracy riding roughshod over the express wishes of local residents. I am delighted that residents have drawn a line in the sand and said enough is enough. I only hope other residents, not just in Southwark but across London, begin to campaign to roll back this insidious tax on residents.

Terry Brownbill
Elmwood Road