The petition, formed by the Badger Hill Residents Community Group, calls for an extension of recently introduced parking restrictions to take in much more of the Badger Hill residential area sited next to the University of York’s Heslington East campus.
Hull Road Labour councillors, Fiona Fitzpatrick and Neil Barnes, have been working closely with the Badger Hill Residents Community Group to enable their voice to be heard in council.
Coun. Fiona Fitzpatrick said:
“It’s staggering how much the overflow car parking from the University campus has impacted on neighbouring streets in Badger Hill. So we were delighted when proposed restrictions were finally implemented at the start of the year.
“However, residents living on streets a little further into the Badger Hill area are now reporting a rapid rise in the number of cars parking on their streets instead - causing major traffic issues. This also causes a number of safety issues, particularly when children are involved at the start and end of the school day”.
Local residents argue that a rapid rise in the number of parked cars on their streets belonging to staff, students and visitors of the neighbouring Heslington East campus are the result of displaced parking as drivers move to avoid already agreed restrictions, thus only moving the problem onto other residents.
Harry Telfer, Chair of Badger Hill Residents Community Group, said: “This petition comes from residents of six Badger Hill streets excluded from the original experimental parking control scheme, who have felt the brunt of displacement in parking from the streets that were covered in the initial scheme.
“The petition requests the extension of controlled on-street parking to those neighbouring streets by means of a Residents Only Parking Scheme.
“The incremental approach which has been employed has only removed parking from those streets where measures have been implemented to those further inside the Badger Hill estate where no restrictions currently exist. It has also slowed down the process of solving the original problem in its entirety.”
See related York Press article here: http://www.yorkpress.co.uk/news/9624881.Call_to_widen_crackdown_on__parking_in_Badger_Hill/
