Appendix 4 – Graham Rd Petition TRO – 43b – 2023 Outer.

Text of petition:

17 October 2023

I read with horror that you are proposing to take away very well used parking spaces on Graham Ave to make space for a Beryl’s bike hub.

XX XX is a building housing people over the age of 55. We have 10 spaces in our car park for residents, visitors, carers and contractors to serve 31 flats. Nowhere near enough for us all to park. YY (the block opposite), which has 25 flats, have similar problems. We also have people who are disabled, have mobility issues in those two buldings alone, if we cannot park close to home we are unable to search the area in the hope of finding space. Parking is at a premium without you taking vital space away. Teachers and visitors to Mile Oak Primary School also use these parking spaces, as do many residents of the lower half of Graham Avenue.

Portslade Academy in Chalky Road has a large car park that we are not allowed to use except at weekends. Why cant your Hub go there? There is ample space outside of the car park so why take vital residential space away? Almost every town and city now has inadequate parking space. Also many residential housing now has more than one car, far more than the town planners would have imagined back in the 1980s when the area was built.

Very few people using the medical centre would use these bikes because they are local people who would either walk or go by car as they do now. In all directions going away from your proposed area are very steep roads so unless you are extremely fit, a bicycle would not be your transport of choice. We also have a well served bus route.

Please register our strong objection to your proposal for this hub.

Yours Sincerely

Signed by 22 signatories, all residents of Block XX XX.

Copy of original lodged with Parking infrastructure team and recorded as 22 objections to the TRO amenment.