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Great new for parking charges

They giving us time to either sell or buy new moder car. We are saved. You may recall that in August we wrote to you about changes to parking permits prices. We had a good response to the proposals and we will be going ahead and introducing the changes early in the new year. This will give permit holders a bit more time to consider their travel arrangements, as we know some residents wanted to consider changing their vehicles. We will use this time to make updates to our website. These updates will include, in advance of any changes being made, a tool which will allow you to easily calculate the cost of a parking permit for your vehicle. The tool will be available online one month before the changes are implemented and we will email you again letting you know when it is in place and the date when the permit prices will change.Kind regards,

Mehdi Nili ● 2495d11 Comments

https://www.theaa.com/european-breakdown-cover/driving-in-europe/european-low-emission-zonesThe above article is nearly a year old.  The UK is slow in dealing with air pollution.  The UK government had to be taken to court to be made to do something about it.

Philippa Bond ● 2492d

https://airqualitynews.com/2019/01/07/khan-urges-motorists-to-check-vehicles-ahead-of-ulez/

Philippa Bond ● 2492d

That’s all good and I totally agree with that. No one is mad enough to have car just for fun. I love walking and cycling. I work all over the town and cycling and walk is not an option so car is necessary and I would love  to have a hydrogen car the cleanest of all but is not available and system is not in place to allow me to have one. I love to have electric car again system is not there too support me. Unless these systems are in place then I should not be fined by Ealing council (Trying to save the world all by it self) for parking my car outside my house. Yes parked car is highly toxic to the enviroment what a silly argument, but yet long term road works, buses crazy road system which just creates congestion around borough is perfectly fine. This idea is just from someone in council who is trying to make a name for them self and has no idea and anything. I can take them around the area and show so many ways they help to reduce the traffic which is the main cause of air pollution, but they are not interested as it doesn’t make money.And I think people in the forum have misunderstood the main topic of the post. The point I was trying to make was we are going to get taxed again unlawfully for parking our cars and the whole cunning way about it and yet council is trying make out streets in to a carpark all in the name of the enviroment.The enviroment argument is very real and very serious but right now all the measures taken by council and the mayer is let’s make as much money from it as we can then we worry about it later.

Mehdi Nili ● 2493d

'We also now realise that we have been poisoning people with the pollution that diesel and petrol engines cause and are creating an unhealthy population and cannot continue in the same way.'Are you sure about that? The use of the available research to conclude a precise number of premature deaths from air pollution in London is quite controversial. Quite limited from other cities have been extrapolated into London to give us this number. Even if you accept this dubious line of argument it is still not a given that cars are a source of the problem. There is little or no evidence that nitrogen dioxide causes premature death to any measurable degree. That is because it always occurs alongside particulates which we know are harmful to health. The body which advises the government on these issues has recently downgraded their risk assessment for NOx.Against this we have the total agreement of the scientific community that carbon dioxide emissions not only threat the health of a limited number of people but the entire future of the planet. However, public policy has switched emphasis from targeting CO2 reduction to NOx reduction. This will increase revenue for the Mayor and Ealing Council but can you honestly say to us it is the best thing to do for the environment.

Andy Jones ● 2493d

747,000 new cars were registered in the third quarter of 2018, a drop of 8.4% over the same period of 2017, and a drop of 16.3% for the same period in 2016.https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/763792/vehicle-licensing-statistics-july-to-september.pdf

Dennis Bailey ● 2494d

Philippa says:"...owning a car no longer has the cachet that it once had".What does this mean?  Is car ownership or use going down?

Phil Kay ● 2494d

Well surely at a minimum we all need a guaranteed parking space at home, at workplace, at favourite supermarket, and of course at the King Power Stadium...

Philip Coe ● 2494d

Parking space for everyone? Ha ha haaa!

Paul James ● 2494d

We don't have homes for everyone so how can we have parking spaces for everyone?  I do realise that you talk about an ideal world - but this is far from one.  Times have changed and owning a car no longer has the cachet that it once had.  Car ownership has dropped.  We also now realise that we have been poisoning people with the pollution that diesel and petrol engines cause and are creating an unhealthy population and cannot continue in the same way. We need to give more priority to alternatives and need to look at other countries which have already done so.There are increasing numbers of charging points coming to our streets and petrol stations.

Philippa Bond ● 2494d

Am sorry that you have to suffer and yes in an ideal world there should be parking space for everyone. But when the council allows home owners to convert their houses to multiple flats that changes the required capacity. But this is about is stealth tax and legal rubbery. One year we are told by the council we going to introduce controlled parking in your area so you can park outside your house. (Great) Now you are locked in. Next year they saying we going to increase your charges because you have diesel car and we want to save the enviroment (only in this borough) but at the same time we are going to make your street into public car park by introducing pay and display in the residential bays. So we are back to what we had before But everyone pays and residence will pay more.You don’t like it then get your self £30k-£40k electric car which you can’t charge outside your house and best luck finding a charging point.

Mehdi Nili ● 2494d

Due to medical issues i'm a pedestrian, i have been all my life.In almost every area of Ealing the parking is over subscribed by the local community themselves. Where i live most houses have turned their front gardens into a car port, and a lot of those have more than one car parked on them. As the working day ends and everyone arrives home in their cars the whole of Ealing goes through a comedy act of trying to park as near to their house as possible. Every one curses everyone, and everyone blames everyone elseAs the problem of parking is local community driven what is the solution?

Dennis Bailey ● 2494d