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Representation ID: 2344

Received: 15/02/2016

Respondent: Belfairs Gardens Residents Association

Reducing car parking space, particularly in the streets, is nonsense. Some of the spaces calculated have been within shopping malls such as the Royals. Local businesses need short term spaces for their customers including care agencies, accountants, lawyers etc. if clients do not find somewhere to park nearby, e.g Clarence Rd. area, the business will relocate somewhere else. This could have an effect upon employment considered elsewhere in the plan and under threat. Disabled people need nearby spaces. So do people with shopping and mums with children. Multi storey car parks are not good for those with walking difficulty or indeed women on their own for safety in darkness.
Going to park in a multi storey or driving around for a space just to have lunch in a cafe in The High Street opposite Marks and Spencers does not make sense for boosting the town economy at all.
The car park next to SAVS building is vital for users of that building and the meetings and workshops there. It also gives access to the Royals complex without having to drive around to the Royals car park where there is often long waiting to get in especially on Saturdays and when it is raining. Likewise the Clarence Road car park is vital for the residents and business people around there and of course the Baptist Church and Salvation Army.