The second meeting of Councillors, Ward Coordinator, Traffic Section and resident's representatives from the Groves and from Grove Village to look at the issue of Visitor Permits took place on July 16. Simon Cooke from the Traffic Section had brought two options for us to look at, a scratchcard scheme and an Annual Visitor Permit per resident. There was a lot of discussion of the pros and cons of each, and as before a lot of this centred on ways the permits could be abused. I had to leave before the end, but it was looking like a trial scheme will be put in place for the first year and we'll see how that works. One of the ways in which it will be evaluated will be how local residents use the scheme. Any mis-use by one or two could mean it gets withdrawn and we all lose out, so it will be partly up to us to be alert and spot if any cars are parking regularly for the day on the Groves that don't belong to one of us!

Once I have received more details of how the meeting concluded and what was finally decided, I'll post it here.

Tags: parking, council, visitors, permits