Councillors agree to CPZ changes for Southfield

Last night at the Southfield ward forum there was a lot of interesting debate about a range of issues. The most important item that was discussed was the results of the re-consultation that myself and two fellow Liberal Democrat Councillors persuaded Ealing Council to conduct.

Over the past couple of years a couple of parking and CPZ issues have arrisen and we looked to see what could be done to improve things. The things we agreed were:

Zone R (Southfield CPZ) - based in the North-eastern side of the ward

• Retain the CPZ for the same days of operation
• Change the hours of operation to one hour in the morning and one in the afternoon so that more visitors can stay without having to buy visitors vouchers (that are very expensive)
• Investigate the conditions of use of the stop and shop bays to see if changes might be made to promote more use of the shopping parades in the area
• The Eastern section of Southfield Road, which is often  not frequently used, will become duel zoned which will mean that it can also be used by those in zone B (Whellock Road for example)

Zone B (Bedford Park CPZ)

• No changes were agreed to this zone so the days of operation and times of day will be retained
• A decision was taken not to move Montgomery from zone B to zone M.

Zone M (Acton Green CPZ)

• No changes will be made so the days of operation and times of day will be retained
• Investigate the conditions of use of the stop and shop bays to see if changes might be made to promote more use of the shopping parades in the area

For the zones where changes will be made it agreed to monitor the changes in about 6 months time from when the changes occur, to monitor whether the changes have had a positive effect.

The details of when changes will take place is not known yet as it usually takes a couple of months for the legal changes to be made.

If you want to read about the other discussions and agreement at the ward meeting last night please click here.