Stopping Central Beds wriggling

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There could be some moves to tackle persistent parking issues in Flitt Leys Close. 

At last week’s Parish Council meeting the chair, Delise Ball, said residents had agreed on double yellows at the entrance to the Close, formalised parking bays in front of the hot food takeaways, providing more space and several “on-off” parking bays in the Close allowing for partial parking on the footpath.

It followed a meeting between residents and the executive member for highways Cllr Brian Spurr and highways officer David Bowie from Central Beds Council, set up by Delise.

In October residents shared their concerns with the PC and at the time there was no consensus on a solution. This allowed Central Beds plenty of wriggle room around doing nothing and blaming it all on the locals.

Delise has spoken to the agent for the Indian and the Chinese restaurants, who says they would agree to marked parking spaces outside their premises which would add one to two more spaces. 

Central Beds Cllr Sue Clarke had also urged the need for consensus from residents.  

This consensus has closed down the wriggling we hope.

It has suggested been that the Parish Council puts a sign on the wall by the Chinese takeaway saying “Do not park outside the garages”. This is now being considered (i.e quotes obtained for the cost). 

I think the residents and the PC owe a big "thank you" to Delise as she has spent many hours and done a lot of work around this thorny issue.  

We aren't there yet  but some progeress has been made.