Town Centre Parking chaos
Days after last year’s local elections in Newmarket, local Conservatives in Mildenhall decided to scrap the Newmarket Parking Strategy Working Group saying that the problems of Newmarket’s car parking problems were solved.
This committee comprised Councillors from Newmarket only. Now Conservative controlled Forest Heath has put forward plans to introduce residents parking in Newmarket. The plans which would allow for only 1 space per household and no increase in parking spaces in the town and no plans for alternative means of transport to encourage other methods of commuting into town. This would penalise people who live, work and shop in town equally.
Liberal Democrat Councillors Andrew Appleby and Ian Radford have opposed the scheme and its costly PR campaign that would only tell the council what local people already know. That without a proper parking strategy that actively encourages alternative transport uses. Any residents parking scheme will only penalise local residents.
Cllrs Ian Radford and Andrew Appleby have launched a petition to scrap plans for a Residents parking scheme until a full multi modal transport and parking strategy is introduced for Newmarket.
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