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Commercial vehicles parked in our residential street

Reported in the Car parking category anonymously at 00:52, Mon 28 April 2008
Sent to Haringey Borough Council 2 minutes later

At this end of Barrington Road the number of vans and other commercial vehicles using the street as a car park is becoming a real and dangerous nuisance. Residents here are finding it harder and harder to park near their houses because these commercial vans are using the street as overnight parking. Few are owned by residents. Several observed belong to a Van hire company called Practical Van Hire which is on Park Road. They put many unhired vehicles into local streets in our area all the time, you can see them all around, and this includes unhired out cars. These and other businesses just use our street as a permanent place to park their vans, when they should have their own depot parking facilities, especially car and van rental firms. There are also new clinic and housing developments in Park Rd opening soon which will probably also increase parking in our street by visitors. In hot weather, there are large numbers of cars parking in Barrington Rd, and neighboring streets when visiting the local Swimming Pool. This causes residents real hardship as you can't even park to unload heavy shopping. Vans are so large it is making driving on the corner of Barrington marked on the map dangerous. My own vehicle was damaged, two doors destroyed, and the driver just drove off. I believe these commercial vehicles, big campervans and the like should be parked in parking facilities away from residential properties, as they are dangerous for children crossing, cause constant difficulties for drivers as the street is too narrow for these vehicles on a sharp bend, and ruin the views and take the light away from people living in the street. We need action and this should be reviewed by the Council to see what can be done to restrict these commercial vehicles from overnight and long term parking in what is supposed to be a residential street. I have called both the Council and the Police and both have said there are no restrictions, laws or bye-laws that apply and they can park anywhere they want where there are no yellow lines. This is a growing problem that needs urgent attention.

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