Seaton Parking Charges

[jeffh]

Passed through Seaton 1pm ish, Shows car park was almost empty, lots of spaces along the front and only about 8 to 10 cars in the Newburn car park...... businesses will very quickly be able to gauge how badly the parking charges are affecting them.

...but the council will hail it a success as congestion has been reduced not forgetting reduced litter etc - a ghost town can be a pretty tidy place

[akarjl]

Well if the Cafe in the Crew fiasco is anything to go by should take around 4 years to resolve...or at least into the clowncillers are up for election....

[jeffh]

Well if the Cafe in the Crew fiasco is anything to go by should take around 4 years to resolve...or at least into the clowncillers are up for election....

Maybe an election promise could be reduce the time period for Seaton Parking to 0800-1800 - similar approach to saying the new emergency care facilities at the Hospital are the best thing that happened to this town, conveniently forgetting who got rid of them in the first place.

[akarjl]

yep living in Seaton it seems we have been written off

[Inspector Knacker]

Been through the last two nights at about 6.30 and the parking bays fro Seaton Lane up the Stain life were empty. The after tea strollers and dog walkers must have found somewhere else. Don't be fooled by the cars on the opposite side of the road, all cars with residents permits or discs.
Utterly clueless windbags.

[Johnny Bongo]

Been through the last two nights at about 6.30 and the parking bays fro Seaton Lane up the Stain life were empty. The after tea strollers and dog walkers must have found somewhere else. Don't be fooled by the cars on the opposite side of the road, all cars with residents permits or discs.
Utterly clueless windbags.

Same here....was driving along Coronation Drive last night before 8pm...only 5 cars at Newburn bridge car park...6 or 7 after 8pm.  The Front seemed to be deserted...mind you, it was cold and very windy...but so's my bum!  The big indicator, imo, will be when the weather warms up...ANY sign of the sun normally brings the Poolies out in force at Seaton!  Let's see if they are daft enough to pay this scummy council for the pleasure of a walk along the prom or taking the dog/ kids for a bit of, what once was, free exercise!   

[craig finton]

Makes a difference to have a council not obsessed with its own stupid ideas and prepared to listen

http://www.gazettelive.co.uk/news/local-news/council-scraps-plan-saltburn-parking-3666813

[jeffh]

Makes a difference to have a council not obsessed with its own stupid ideas and prepared to listen

http://www.gazettelive.co.uk/news/local-news/council-scraps-plan-saltburn-parking-3666813

It looks as though our council have saved us at least £20,000 - they didn't bother with a survey.

[mickys19]

My mam lives on the front, she has said its been very quiet  since the charges came in, and yes the cars on that side will all have resident permits on.

[Land Phil]

It has been spookily quiet along the Cliff today.

When I walked the dog after 8 this morning there were no cars parked on the pay side of the road at all.

[akarjl]

difference betweenSeaton and Saltburn is they have implemented it and it was put in place by maddog who doesn't drive or live in seaton. i can't see it being stopped. We just have to make sure we don't end up with a Labour mp and maddog gets the boot when she is up for re election.

[Inspector Knacker]

A review is utter B******s. After all the capital expenditure lavished on this pointless exercise, there's no way it's going to be scrapped. Oh, they'll go through the consultation motions and decide they'll do what they were going to do from the start and plough on with 'Exercise Spite'.
They have to produce a logical reason why charges were introduced other than spotting a previously untargetted cash cow.
We're spoken down to by people 'educated' beyond their abilities.

[not4me]

When is the consultation meeting and where?

[jeffh]

When is the consultation meeting and where?

Below is the response I received from HBC regarding what criteria are being employed to measure the success of the scheme. The event is May 10th from 2-6pm at Seaton Carew Social Club and Institute in Station Lane.  It looks like a presentation with no councillors present.  They are simply going through the motions.

"As I'm sure you will understand, it would be very difficult to provide a composite list of the criteria to be used as some issues may not come to light until the scheme becomes fully operational. The scheme includes a number of complementary traffic management restrictions in addition to the pay and display charges that will apply 'on-street' and in several car parks, which will be introduced under an experimental Traffic Regulation Order. The review process will therefore consider any impact on visitor numbers and any businesses,  together with any potential affect on residents living in Seaton.

Some restrictions have been included in order to protect vulnerable areas where the Council anticipates vehicle displacement. They include several new and existing residential zones and include combination pay and display / resident permit bays. In addition two limited waiting disc zone schemes are proposed at Station Lane Car Park and a 30 minutes area on The Front. The disc scheme is new to Hartlepool but is well established and has been successfully managed in various towns across the region but clearly the impact and compliance within such areas will need to be monitored and enforced.

There will inevitably be a financial consideration within the review process which will require an evaluation of the operational running costs, daily revenue income, together with the associated effectiveness that the additional enforcement presence will have in terms of FPN/ PCN's issued, compliance for both traffic and environmental offences, perceived improvement and impact on number of complaints / requests for enforcement visits through this period.

As you may have seen a date for the first consultation event was recently announced, and this will be held on Wednesday May 10th from 2-6pm at Seaton Carew Social Club and Institute in Station Lane, and we plan to hold two further events later in the year. Officers from the Council will be present at all of these and this will allow for an ongoing assessment of issues of concern, complaint, compliment that may arise and therefore will need to be addressed and recorded. Such reports (from both residents and businesses) will be included within the review process and such matters will be considered in any proposals / recommendations for improvements.
The Neighbourhood Services Committee will consider a report after the trial period has ended and will then make a decision on the longer term future of the scheme."

[Land Phil]

Today 2pm in Seaton Social Clurb.
Parking for clurb members only unfortunately.