Outrage over Barrow Road parking
Kenilworth Today
Barrow Road resident Martin Krsek is fed up with living in a "public car park".
If he comes home early from work, or uses his car on a Saturday, he finds he cannot park near his own home.
Each side of the street, off Warwick Road, is lined with cars belonging to shoppers who use the two hour free parking time to run their errands - and not pay a penny.
Mr Krsek, a biologist at Warwick University, said: "I bought a house in a beautiful street and then I discovered it's a public car park.
"People who live so close to the town centre should not be punished."
Mr Krsek is frustrated that car parks in Kenilworth are cheaper than in Warwick or Leamington, but still nobody wants to pay to use them.
And he fears the problem will get worse as spaces are lost at Abbey End and Talisman Square.
He has organised a campaign for a meter system with higher rates for non-residents, supported by almost every householder in the street.
Mr Krsek wrote to Kenilworth town councillor Michael Coker (Con, Kenilworth Abbey), who asked for members' support for a more "effective" scheme on July 6.
The town council must lobby Warwickshire County Council to change the system, but it gave unanimous support to the campaign.
Coun Patrick Ryan (Lib Dem, Kenilworth Abbey) said two hours gave shoppers too much time. He advocated a "ferocious" scheme such as that used in York or Durham. There, non-residents have a ten-minute limit.Councillors anticipated an improvement when Warwick District Council takes over enforcing parking from the police in October 2007.
Under so-called decriminalisation, pay and display systems with higher fees will be introduced on residential roads. But some councillors fear the move could be delayed, as has happened in Nuneaton.
County Council traffic projects group spokesman Roger Bennett said he was aware of problems in Barrow Road, but measures to solve them would only be introduced with decriminalisation.
He said higher on street rates would encourage people back into car parks, and added that he believed Kenilworth had enough car park capacity to cope when spaces were lost.
Barrow Road resident Martin Krsek is fed up with living in a "public car park".
If he comes home early from work, or uses his car on a Saturday, he finds he cannot park near his own home.
Each side of the street, off Warwick Road, is lined with cars belonging to shoppers who use the two hour free parking time to run their errands - and not pay a penny.
Mr Krsek, a biologist at Warwick University, said: "I bought a house in a beautiful street and then I discovered it's a public car park.
"People who live so close to the town centre should not be punished."
Mr Krsek is frustrated that car parks in Kenilworth are cheaper than in Warwick or Leamington, but still nobody wants to pay to use them.
And he fears the problem will get worse as spaces are lost at Abbey End and Talisman Square.
He has organised a campaign for a meter system with higher rates for non-residents, supported by almost every householder in the street.
Mr Krsek wrote to Kenilworth town councillor Michael Coker (Con, Kenilworth Abbey), who asked for members' support for a more "effective" scheme on July 6.
The town council must lobby Warwickshire County Council to change the system, but it gave unanimous support to the campaign.
Coun Patrick Ryan (Lib Dem, Kenilworth Abbey) said two hours gave shoppers too much time. He advocated a "ferocious" scheme such as that used in York or Durham. There, non-residents have a ten-minute limit.Councillors anticipated an improvement when Warwick District Council takes over enforcing parking from the police in October 2007.
Under so-called decriminalisation, pay and display systems with higher fees will be introduced on residential roads. But some councillors fear the move could be delayed, as has happened in Nuneaton.
County Council traffic projects group spokesman Roger Bennett said he was aware of problems in Barrow Road, but measures to solve them would only be introduced with decriminalisation.
He said higher on street rates would encourage people back into car parks, and added that he believed Kenilworth had enough car park capacity to cope when spaces were lost.
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