22 January 2003

Transport for London
Street Management
Windsor House
42-50 Victoria Street
London
SW1H 0TL

Dear Mr Turner

I have been given your name as Managing Director for Street Management and wish to complain to you in the strongest terms regarding the above scheme.

Many roads in our area have been sent a proposal for this scheme which should quite clearly not be included.

Our entire street and residents in every neighbouring street that I have spoken to so far, are furious at this ridicules attempt to gain extra revenue for a problem that does not exist and we believe never will.

Streets are included that have no more than three or four cars parked during the entire day. We have no parking problems and do not suffer from either commuter parking from tube travellers or people parking and then walking to the shops.

This scheme is presumably to help the residents but this will do nothing but inconvenience us. We do not need it and we will not pay to park outside our own houses when there is no need. It will be problem with increasing charges for the rest of our lives here.

No surveys have been performed in our road or any other adjacent road that I have asked Traffic Services at Hillingdon Council to comment on. The proposal circulated is trying to worry the residents into accepting the scheme through conjecture and facts from surveys that have been carried out in only the busiest of roads on the proposed layout.

This scheme is an abuse of the council leaders powers and simply an attempt to try and expand the scheme as far as it can to bleed this area of more money. We already pay one of the highest Community Charges in the country and are not so gullible as to fall for this extra revenue earner.

I have discovered from my contacts at BBC News that this has happened before in other wards and that when the story was last covered, you stated that it would not be forced upon residents who did not want it. Speaking on behalf of the residents of Winchester Road and for the residents of many neighbouring roads I have recently met, I ask you to stand by your statement and intervene now before we have to take further action.

Please read the two letters attached. Both letters have been written after talks with other residents affected and indicate the feelings of Winchester Road in particular.

We await your immediate response.