ePetition - Dyke Close Parking Chaos

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Dyke Close Parking Chaos

We the undersigned petition Brighton & Hove Council to Introduce a light touch parking scheme into Dyke Close. Ever since parking restrictions were introduced in the surrounding areas, the number of cars parking in Dyke Close and blocking the road and our driveways has become unbearable and more importantly dangerous. The Close is used as a parking site and people that park, often do so without consideration and for lengthy stays -often cars are left for weeks.

Our bins are very often not collected because the bin lorry cannot get down the road due to badly parked cars- the bin and recycling drivers themselves have complained about this to their managers.
There was an incident where there was a fire on the corner house of Dyke Close and the fire engine was unable to get down - luckily no lives were lost but the damage was more extensive due to the delay in getting the fire truck down. What happens if this happens to another house and lives are lost?

This ePetition ran from 16/04/2024 to 16/10/2024 and has now finished.

6 people signed this ePetition.

Council response

Councillor Muten, Cabinet Member for Transport, Parking and Public Realm responded at Full Council on Thursday 24th October 2024:

Thank you Vanessa for your petition requesting resident parking permits in Dyke Road Close. I can very much appreciate your concern and particularly as it’s gone on for such a time. On news of your petition come to Council earlier this week, I took the opportunity to briefly visit Dyke Road Close to help me better understand your concern.

Car parking and access by larger vehicles requiring access, such as bin trucks and fire engines, could readily be impeded by poor parking. I also followed this up within the Council's parking services.

There is a parking scheme priority timetable being compiled with areas which have come forward requesting a parking scheme. In response to your petition presented today, we will add Dyke Road Close to this timetable to join existing Zone P.
Officers will be sending in this timetable to me as Cabinet Member for consideration for approval later this year and we're very keen to support a public consultation with the residents of Dyke Road Close. So thank you again for coming here today.

 


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