Tonight the Evening Standard is covering the story of the release by London Councils of figures for parking tickets across London showing that overall parking tickets are down 11% in a year and 22% in two years. The change in Ealing has been even more dramatic.
I was in charge of Parking Services, [...]
We had a long, long cabinet meeting last night – over three and half hours. The meeting was dominated by discussion of whether or not we should outsource our Civil Enforcement Officers, these are the people that we used to call traffic wardens. See paper here.
About 30 of these staff turned [...]
I have just been catching up with some casework (that is what councillors call respondoing to your letters). I have had to write to a lady who is unhappy to have got a parking ticket when transporting her mother and her Blue Badge. She got a ticket for parking in a loading bay [...]
I had half an hour between meetings this morning so I took the opportunity to do a quick spot check on customer services.
It was 9:05 am by my watch when I arrived and it was a bit daunting at first as there were 20 plus people queuing out of the door to get [...]
One of my colleagues, Councillor Colm Costello, has obtained the following numbers from the Department of Transport regarding the number of licensed vehicles in Ealing. You can see that the number of vehicles on our roads has increased 15% in ten years from 1997 to 2007.
Coincidentally the following figures from our residents’ [...]
Yesterday the Ealing Times really went over the top with their front page headline: “Ealing Council could be investigated by police for fraud“. Ealing Times is about to be closed down by their owners and will not be published after Christmas so maybe journalist Alex Hayes just doesn’t care anymore.
Ealing Council has [...]
Today I issued the following statement on yellow box junctions:
On behalf of the Council I would like to say sorry and offer our unreserved apologies.
We will be refunding everyone ticketed at the affected yellow box junctions since 20 June.
The decision was made after an email sent by the Department for Transport on 20 [...]
This was one of the things we looked at in the course of last year’s Parking Services Specialist Scrutiny Panel. The draft has now been worked through and the council is currently consulting on it.
Follow this link to consultation page.
In large parts the Code of Conduct will be dictated by [...]
Ealing Times have moved their story on this morning. They have put the council’s side of the story and added some inflammatory quotes from Labour’s Councillor Mahfouz. I won’t waste my breath on him. Commenter Nigel Brookes from Hanwell does a comprehensive job:
Typical opportunism from Labour.
It was under a Labour administration that [...]
Tonight our two local papers are taking a different approach to a news story that the Ealing Times in particular has been trying to keep in front of you all. Today we issued a press release that explained that we are going to remove six box junctions at T-junctions which are painted right [...]
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