To say that this proposal is not a revenue raising exercise is disingenuous.

Dear Sirs,

I have filled in the questionnaire form relating to the above and returned it to yourselves. But as I have recently experienced postal delays in land mail sent with first class postage (over one week) I place no reliance on this reaching you by 11th December.

I am therefore emailing my views to this address, supplied in the North Dulwich Parking Review First Stage Consultation leaflet.

I have 1 car, that is parked on the street.

It is always easy for me and my visitors to park (by that I mean, either directly outside my house, or within four car parking spaces of my front door).

The only time that there are difficulties in parking are when neighbours in the street undertake home improvements and cause skips or building materials to take up kerbside parking spaces.

I absolutely DO NOT want the proposed CPZ to be implemented. The area should remain uncontrolled and I utterly refute the reasons given for imposing a CPZ in Frankfurt Road and the surrounding areas. It is scandalous to charge residents to park outside their own house - not to mention their visitors, who in many cases are elderly relatives with mobility problems who cannot travel on public transport. To say that this proposal is not a revenue raising exercise is disingenuous.

My reasons for refuting the scheme are:

Firstly; commuters use residential parking spaces at the beginning of the day. Unless you commute yourself, you will not lose your car parking space because your own car will be occupying it. If you use your car during the day for short local journeys, it is more often than not the case that your space is still vacant when you return because the commuting rush has ceased.

Secondly; if you yourself commute to work by car, then you will be/are returning back home at the same time as the 'alien' commuters are vacating the spaces their cars have been occupying during the day: and therefore the car parking spaces will be/are readily available to you as a resident.

Thirdly; short, irregular daytime journeys into Central London are undertaken by the vast majority of local residents on public transport - due to congestion charges in Central London and the difficulty of parking at destination points in the West End/City. This being the case, they/you do not lose any car parking space that their/your vehicle is occupying in your residential road.

Fourthly: it would be more pertinent to ask how much of the alleged parking problem in the proposed CPZ is caused by families owning two - and in some cases, three - cars per household. I doubt whether Southwark Council or HM government would countenance taxing/imposing a charge on residents with multiple vehicle ownership in the CPZ, therefore why should residents with single car ownership have to pick up a charge for the implementation of a superfluous CPZ?

Please note that all of the above comments are arrived at by my having lived in the area for over 10 years and from being, at various times in that period, both a commuter by car myself and being based at home.

Yours faithfully

Joanna Wood
Frankfurt Road
Freelance Food Journalist/Editor