Hi Hoptop,

Thank you for commissioning the survey, interesting to see the results. I was one of the respondents and I thought I'd just add a bit to what I said in the survey here.

I moved to Devonshire Road late on last year so think I missed the original survey by the council. Devonshire is a strange one for CPZs as the road has many residents living in houses that have been converted flats. It means that road space is already at a premium for cars.

I imagine there would be three distinct schools of thought. Between a quarter and a third of the 775 properties on the road may have drives in front of their houses and I suspect the owners of these properties would be happy to have a CPZ solution, or wouldn't care... There are also those that don't own a car - I guess that's another quarter of the street roughly? Unfortunately, I'm in the group that has a car, but no drive. Street parking is the only option I have available for myself and any guests.

Essentially, car owners, who already pay a fortune in road tax, petrol and insurance, will be paying an extra £120 (based on what the council seems to currently charge residents for CPZ permits) per year. I suspect that instead of reducing the number of cars on the streets of Honor Oak introducing a CPZ will lead to a lot of owners in the area (and maybe commuters too) parking on Dunoon Road, Tyson Road and other side streets where the rules do not apply. The knock on effects could make a currently manageable situation in other streets significantly worse. Out of interest, where would a CPZ on Devonshire extend to?

Our car is purely used at evenings and weekends - commuting to work in London's traffic would be a nightmare and end up costing far more. We mostly use it to buy things we couldn't get on the bus and make journeys to see relatives. Were we to get rid of the car we'd need to pay what we saved on long distance rail fares or flights and the cost of deliveries! My work is in West London, so I couldn't return and move it at lunchtime to avoid the CPZ enforcement proposed in the survey.

I would worry about the effect this change might have on visitors. I don't want to need to consider that people coming to my house might need to pay to park outside, or have to park much further away - its not particularly welcoming if they aren't from the area.

Funnily enough the time I found parking on Devonshire Road most difficult was late on a Sunday night in December(!), when the whole road was jam-packed. I guess that wouldn't be commuted traffic, though I'm not sure what was going on. I've not had as much trouble parking at other times and, although it has been busy, I've not seen the street as bad as in the pictures in this thread. The completion of the Overground loop seems to have eased congestion a bit too - the train to work seems slightly quieter, and the roads less busy.

That being said, the situation can be pretty hairy at the HOP end of the road, but only usually when people are dropping commuters off and are (briefly) stopped at junctions and outside the station. I do appreciate that a solution may need to be found.

I take it the council would need to issue a follow up survey before anything concrete was decided, but I just wanted to put across my two pence... Thanks again for running the survey. Look forward to hearing what gets discussed.



PS - thank you to thank forum admin for activating my account. Its great to be in Honor Oak