Campaign for a Realistic Approach to Parking: 'Stupid' Decision Hitting Tourism

Thursday, 9 June 2011

'Stupid' Decision Hitting Tourism - Machynlleth Joins the Fight

Extract from Machynlleth and Llanidloes edition of the 'Cambrian News '

01 June 2011

A Powys County Council decision to employ two new taxpayer-funded traffic wardens in the town – barely two years after closing its tourist information centre was branded “plain stupid” this week.

Ray Westmoreland, of Tytanyrywen, Pennal, accused the council’s recently-appointed civil enforcement officers of handing out parking tickets “like confetti” - 188 in one month alone - and said that the town’s tourism economy had suffered as a result.He said: “They’re now paying for two traffic wardens who give out tickets like confetti, yet we can’t afford the tourist information centre - it’s utterly ridiculous.

NOTE

Machynlleth Town Council have contacted Councillor Gareth Ratcliffe offering their support for the CRAP county wide campaign.

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Petition

Some highlights from our blog

* Highlighted are the final proposals submitted to Powys County Council on 11th October 2012

The full story can be found by trawling through our blog or selecting highlights detailed below:

3rd May 2011 Start of the blog

8th May 2011 Parking Enforcement will ‘Rub the Heart Out of Hay’

8th May 2011 Now the Council Save Money, Now They Don’t

17th May 2011 Mary Portas – Shopping Guru

9th June 2011 A Letter from the Welsh Assembly

19th July 2011 A Battle Won, the Campaign Continues

20th July 2011 A Letter from Roger Williams MP

20th July 2011 A Letter from Kirsty Williams AM

18th Aug. 2011 Our Questionnaire

24th Aug. 2011 A Great Meeting at the Parish Hall

*11th Sept. 2011 Hurrah! The Final Proposals

*11th Sept. 2011 TEXT OF THE FINAL PROPOSALS

12th Oct. 2011 From Confrontation to Co-operation

15th Oct. 2011 Parking Bays in Powys and 2010 – 2011 Income

16th Oct. 2011 Questions to the Council

25th Oct. 2011 Answers to Councillor Ratcliffe’s Questions

1st Nov. 2011 What About the Rest of Wales?

7th Dec. 2011 It’s Really CRAP News from Powys County Council

26th Jan. 2012 A CRAP email to Councillor Geraint Hopkins

27th Jan. 2012 An(other) email from Kirsty Williams AM

29th Jan. 2012 An email from Cllr Geraint Hopkins to CRAP

13th March 2012 An email to Councillor Geraint Hopkins

21st March 2012 emails from Counillor Ceraint Hopkins

24th March 2012 First Freedom of Information Request

24th March 2012 Second Freedom of Information Request

9th April 2012 CRAP Background and the Story So Far

11th April 2012 A Letter sent today 11th April to all Powys County Councillor Candidates

17th April 2012 Thank You Machynlleth

19th April 2012 Responses and Quotes

24th April 2012 NOT EVERYONE SUPPORTS OUR CAMPAIGN

27th April 2012 Civil Parking Enforcement in Powys - Costs, Fines and Income

27th April 2012 Just What Does Your Candidate think about Parking?

7th May 2012 Election Results

7th May 2012 CAN YOU BELIEVE IT? Powys don't know how much it cost them to take over Civil Parking Enforcement!

Our Petition

This petition is now long over - but it did stimulate over one thousand responses - so it served its purpose.

Thank you to all those who signed it.

www.petitionbuzz.com/petitions/crap

Opened on May 09, 2011

'We the under signed believe it essential that Powys County Council bring forward by 6 months their plans to commence work on a county wide review of traffic management and residents’ parking schemes and start preparatory work in September 2011 so that the full review can be completed before the Council elections and when the current moratorium on spending ends in April 2012. This petition is open to residents and visitors to Powys.'

How you can help

This forum welcomes contributions from all those who are interested in pursuading Powys County Council to review residents' parking throughout the county.

The council originally told us that their moratorium on spending would not allow spending on introducing any changes to residents' parking until April 2012. It is now April and we are demanding that a newly elected Powys administration implement policy changes immediately rather than delaying any further.

Promises have been made and we are told a review has been started, but we have seen no evidence of anything having yet been done. The new administration is an opportunity for a new start. Powys County Councillors are elected to carry out the wishes of their electorate - let them do so NOW.

If you have ideas or comments, please submit them to CRAP by email to crap-powys@mail.com. Whether you agree with our campaign or not, your comments will be noted.