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Morris Hickey wrote:The Health Centre in Manford Way is provided - together with all its inadequacies - by the NHS and NOT by Redbridge Council. You forget my occupation. The council can pressurise the PCT to provide dequate parking facilities, as long as the PCT are able to do so. This parking scheme does not consider the residents or those who access the health centre, thus promoting the inequalities in health care. This is done in a less affluent area of the borough. Links between ill health and social class, if you would like to know more about this, feel free to ask.
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Hi. New to all this political stuff. I agree with BryanDicker. The council should have more consideration if there is a lack of parking spaces for the health centre.
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Welcome theProdigalson, there is not a lack of parking space for users of The Hainault Health Centre, but a complete absence of ANY parking spaces for service users.
Only staff of the Health Centre can park in the small car park at the rear, leaving service users to park in the surrounding roads.
The result is cars being issued with Fixed Penalty Notices, and a small grass verge getting ruined by vehicles, (expect more yellow lines and bollards in an attempt to find a "solution" ) which in reality just moves the parking problem further up the road.
Not particualrly helpful if you are sick or disabled and have difficulty walking, but street planners know best, (or so we are told?)
De-Clutter the streets
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Thanks for that Newbie. Morris Hickey, you appear to know some things about this. Do you know if the council has approached the PCT about this problem?
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BryanDicker wrote:Morris Hickey wrote:The Health Centre in Manford Way is provided - together with all its inadequacies - by the NHS and NOT by Redbridge Council. You forget my occupation. The council can pressurise the PCT to provide dequate parking facilities, as long as the PCT are able to do so. This parking scheme does not consider the residents or those who access the health centre, thus promoting the inequalities in health care. This is done in a less affluent area of the borough. Links between ill health and social class, if you would like to know more about this, feel free to ask. Do you have any evidence that the Council, or Councillors, did not pressurise the PCT on this matter?
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Newbie wrote:[quote=Newbie] The leader of the council alan.weinberg@redbridge.gov.uk explained that the cost of the charge was equivalent to 15p per day, and that he would like to have guaranteed parking outside his house for 15p per day. Oh were but that the case. Many's the time that I have arrived home only to find that my entire street has no space and if I'm lucky there will be a single space in an adjacent road. The relatively lower price rise for households with a second car is nothing short of obscene given the worldwide need for a decrease in the madness that is CAR PROLIFERATION. Sadly, now that one of the architects of decent public transport in our capital has been deposed, I predict only a worsening of the situation. I would gladly pay 15p per day for a guaranteed, allotted space directly in front of my house. If visitors are coming to anyone, it would be nice if a sense of community could be engaged to arrange for space to be created for them. e.g. one resident agreeing to park elsewhere to allow the guest(s) to park close by. This seems to me to be a win/win situation, encouraging a sense of community.
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hey Guys you live in the city, why do you all need cars. and I mean need your cars, hears my tip sell the dam thing things you wont regret it.
just think no tax, petrol, MOT insurance parking fines tickets. I wont go on. I have not owed a car for many years since i sold it to raise funds to buy my house. and i have not regreeted it one bit. I use a 125cc scooter for work and public transport or cabs for everything else, and its not as bad as every one likes to make out.
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yes it's right that health center must have their parking center if lack of parking spaces well if you don't have then i think you should make a van root to relief parking tension. what do you think about thtis? theprodigalson wrote:Hi. New to all this political stuff. I agree with BryanDicker. The council should have more consideration if there is a lack of parking spaces for the health centre.
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When I read the post by rickmark123, referring to a previous posting by BryanDicker and the Prodigalson, I thought history was repeating itself and that rickmark123 was due for prompt ‘eradication’, but, no, I checked with Bryan: rickmark123 is a genuine newbie! (At least, nothing to do with Bryan).
However, the points made are as valid now as before: it is completely short-sighted not to provide convenient parking next to a Health Facility, especially if it is anticipated that lots of people will attend. The council should want to have a say in this and not simply consider it as an opportunity to make money out of people who have little choice but to use their cars.
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