Dear Mr Lammy
I have read that Haringey Council has voted to triple the cost of parking, as well as ending daily permits so that only hourly ones will be available.
This will completely wipe me out. I will be finished. That would be the end of cheap rehearsal possibilities at my space and make visiting me by car absolutely impossible.
This is completely unacceptable. When I first moved here there was a modest restriction, and always free parking on weekends. Now we rarely get a weekend without a match – on which days permits must be used – so the entire situation will have changed radically if this tripling of the cost of permits is implemented – especially considering it is still always easily possible to park on Holcombe Road. But in addition I am appalled at what this will mean for any old person or anyone who requires regular health or family visits in Haringey. There is also a real paucity of public parking facilities in our area.
If there was a system whereby residents could be eligible for a single permit that they could give to a single visitor, the situation would be somewhat alleviated. I do not understand why a person who is a resident can park for free while someone without a car is penalised if they have a visitor.
This is an absolutely crucial issue for me. And even if I had to give hourly permits at the current price, I would be wiped out. Lessons or sessions of any health or dance variety always exceed an exact hour, so I would always need at least two hourly permits per visitor. An impossible expense. I would certainly be unable to pay my Council tax and pay for permits. Haringey would no longer be somewhere I could live. But also the value of my home would be affected as I cannot imagine anyone wishing to move in to an area with such draconian parking. It is especially galling that in the west of the borough – where affluent people live who have the power to sway the decisions of things like councils, the hours when permits are required are much shorter.
All this smacks of an illegal decision to generate income from parking permits, and it is also reflective of the damage the new stadium at White Hart Lane has done to our entire community and their power to get decisions in their favour in the borough. You do realise that a photo of the stadium as a toilet seat is circulating among residents?
There is a lot of anger already about the way residents in the poorest areas are being treated by the Council. This will only exacerbate an already potentially explosive atmosphere. We have had riots before.
I urge you to do all you can to warn the Council off implementing this foolhardy and unfair decision.
Sincerely
Anthony Howell
And his reply dismisses my letter in three paras –
Thank you for your email, I really appreciate you taking the time to get in touch. This is an automatic reply to confirm that your email has been received.
Please read the following points carefully:
If your query involves Haringey Council services e.g. housing, parking, bin collection etc. please contact your local ward councillors who can raise the issue with Haringey Council. You can find the contact details for your local councillors by visiting https://www.haringey.gov.uk/local-democracy/councillors-and-mps/find-my-ward and entering your postcode.
and blah blah blah etc.
Too busy supporting genocide and fucking up the world to do anything about this scandal in his constituency.
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