Object

Representation ID: 2764

Received: 13/12/2016

Respondent: Papillon

Legally compliant? Not specified

Sound? Not specified

Justified
I object to the use of the Car Parking Study produced by Steer Davies Gleave as it is flawed and based on Car parking surveys carried out in bad weather and on inaccurate, unreliable data from the council's VMS system. The parking report and surveys have underestimated the parking stock, particularly in the central area to the south of railway, and thus has underestimated the demand for spaces from visitors to the seafront. The surveys have been predominantly focused on the High Street thus the parking situation & demand to the south of the railway line has been misrepresented even though the southern area has been identified as the area which experiences the greatest pressure on its parking supply. The report relies on over 99% of data from the VMS system which is inaccurate and unreliable.

The SCAAP document and its Car Parking Survey fails to recognise that on many busy days the current car park network can't cope with demand.