Opposition turn up the heat

By Harry

With the county elections approaching in May the Liberal Democrat controlled Bath and North East Somerset Council has come under sustained fire from opposition councillors over Residents’ Parking Zones (RPZs).

Lambridge’s representative Cllr

Joanna Wright of the Green Party has criticised the scheme in the east part of the city.

She accused the Council of having wasted tens of thousands of pounds, with ‘years of planning, and endless consultations only to impose seven badly thought-out RPZs.’

Her point was that RPZs were put in place as part of the Council’s policy but had disrupted ‘thousands of residents and workers without giving them alternatives to driving to work, shops, or schools.’

She said the Residents Parking

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