The Council have issued Traffic Orders taking the number of Stop & Shop places to 13 ( out of 52) on Pitshanger Lane.They are shortly to launch period of consultation to increase this by another 14 places, this recently enlarged area of consultation was forced upon the Council by the PCA who requested the Council to Consult the original area of consultation of the Streets for the People scheme, i.e. 3000 households, for a daytime displacement of 14 vehicles- which is a little excessive, especially when one considers that the local petition in favour of stop & shop obtained 2000 signatures in 8 days. ( which of these actions, the PCA's request or the petition- shows democacy in action?)A large number of the petitioners actually live on the Lane or on the Lane end of the sidestreets. The vast majority of local residents recognise that for the community to survive, there must be an adequate provision of stop & shop places. Pitshanger Lane has become an area where people park & ride, they commute in & then travel into town by public transport, benefitting no-one, and yet of the 52 possible parking places only 13 have been allocated for stop & shop- in most of the other places people can park all day!
What other shopping parade in Ealing makes so little povision for shopping?
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