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WIN TWO PREMIER TICKETS Drivers can expect a parking Exclusive Competition: WITH BRIGHTON RACECOURSE ticket if they leave their cars on the verges in 10 named streets in Brighton and Hove. Traffic wardens are being asked Today marks take-off to enforce the rules infor three streets The Level in the Withdean and Patcham area Page 3 of Brighton and seven others in Mile Oak in Portslade. But a council committee voted to leave Varndean Road off the list, despite a plea from the Preston and Patcham Society and one of Jean Calder the ward councillors. Game on! Dr Lucas v Dr Sen door-to-door canvassing in a bid to crucially, enforceable - signs approved Surrenden Crescent. rally support in readiness for the In North Portslade, they include by the Department of Transport (DoT). The decision followed a safetyPage 19 Exclusive by Greg Hadfield inevitable outcry by a minority of Mile Oak Road, Chalky Road, Residents in the areas affected Council officials are preparing for a residents. Wickhurst Road, Valley Road, and selected roads in Withdean and crackdown on drivers who ruin grass audit last month by independent Committee members were Patcham, as well as in North Portslade Drove Crescent. verges by bad parking, Brighton & unwilling to comment publicly. One Publication of the notices are will have 21 days to respond to the Hove Independent can reveal. consultants and comments from leaflet, however, stated: “This is a certain to cause intense debate. notices before they can come into After years of being accused of great opportunity to protect our local If successful, supporters of the turning a blind eye, Brighton and Hove effect, possibly before the end of the residents. crackdown - including the Preston and environment. Please respond positively year. City Council is about to publish traffic Old Patcham Society - hope the pilot The list of roads in Withdean and regulation order notices in two of the to the traffic regulation order notices The committee was told that schemes will be extended across the Patcham include Varndean Road worst-hit areas. which we expect to see on lamp-posts city. The orders, expected in the next two and Braybon Avenue (both pictured by early August.” the clampdown on parking on Society members have undertaken above) as well as Surrenden Road and weeks, will give details of new - and, Continued on page 5 verges was a pilot scheme. RichardThis Morris Just another day on Perfect setting: 20 books The Color Run is a Vega Building: More Brighton seafront starring our city kaleidoscopic 5k appears to mean that The other roadsa modern landmark headlines Page 5 Page 8 Page 20 may be added, rather than that Page 26 enforcement will be for a limited BRIGHTON AND HOVE ENHANCE YOUR LOVE LIFE CITY CABS time only. We’ll get you where you want to be KUMAGRA whatever time of day Nick White, a Preston and •Safe EAT DRINK RELAX •Herbal Patcham Society committee •No Prescription Needed 205 205 TABOO 2 Surrey Street, Brighton BUY ONE COFFEE 263 565 member, addressed members of BN1 3PA - 01273 How we broke the news on July 26 TABOO 8 Blatchington Road, Hove 3YN - 01273 220 911 the city council's environment, BN3 LUST! 43 Gardner Street, Brighton 205205 BN1 1UN - 01273 699 344 Intenso Espresso Bar, 236 Portland Road Hove BN3 5QT transport and sustainability on the verges has increased Oak Road, Valley Road, Wickhurst (01273) 205 205 www.KUMAGRA.com committee at Hove Town Hall on substantially - up to 30. Rise and Wickhurst Road. Tuesday (October 8). “I’ve stood around there Signs will go up under He said: “We feel that Varndean observing drivers’ behaviour. They relatively-new powers for the Road deserves better than to be adapt. They manage. It’s a busy council that are being used for the left out. We’re not tree-huggers. road, but passing places do exist. first time. We’re seeking practical solutions “Our plan is no cost, it has Councillor Pete West, the Green for the residents and drivers. health benefits and only modest chair of the committee, said: “It strikes me that the inconvenience for a few. It involves “This scheme is a pilot and it’s a consultants got it wrong. Reinstate walking for up to five minutes.” consensual pilot - and we could Varndean Road. Permit on-street Councillor Sue Shanks, who learn a lot from it. I don’t think the parallel parking; there’s room for represents Withdean for the Green future of Varndean Road rests on 15 to 16 cars.” Party, said: “This is supposed to whether it is included in this pilot. He said that up to 30 cars were be a pilot. I would hope that a Council official Owen McElroy now leaving their cars on the member of the committee would said: “This is a brand new verges in Varndean Road, creating move an amendment to include form of restriction and signage safety problems. Varndean Road in the pilot.” introduced by the Department for Some, he said, would be Nobody did. Transport in 2010 and it’s the first displaced and drivers would end The streets affected in the application in Brighton and Hove. up trying to park elsewhere, but Withdean and Patcham area “I’ve had a request from a about half of them could park at are Braybon Avenue, Surrenden councillor in Hangleton and Knoll the kerbside. Crescent and Surrenden Road. to introduce the scheme into West He added: “Don’t let the car And in Mile Oak the affected Way. There are other wards where take over. Put the residents first. streets are Chalky Road, Drove councillors are asking for this The numbers that are parking Crescent, Graham Avenue, Mile scheme to be introduced.”
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