Hi Hoptop,
Many thanks for your detailed and thoughtful reply. As it happens, I don't like CPZs for the reasons you state and have generally advised people against them, but some HOPRA members were reporting on significant problems with parking. So, it seemed only right to find out what people actually wanted or did not want. We were afraid, too, that people like you had missed the big council on-line consultation over August and September 2012 and that we might find parking controls suggested by default. At least the council has a detailed survey for Honor Oak Park to consider on 5 February.
As you have rightly said, our survey is simply an initial stage in a process. Were any proposal to be drawn up, everyone on the roads concerned would have to be consulted and more than 50 per cent would have to agree to the proposed CPZ.
Once again, thanks for your interest and concern.