In both Bexhill and Battle towns, the issue of parking has continued to cause difficulties for residents and traders alike.—Huw Merriman, MP for Bexhill and Battle
Parking is free for the first two hours but cars are staying all day and other cars are parking on double-yellow lines and in loading bays. The voices of dissent are getting louder. Anti-social parking is a danger and causes traffic chaos. It puts people off shopping in our towns. Accidents will happen and shops will close if we do not find a solution. I intend to lobby National and Local Government alike to find a solution to an issue that is causing real misery to local residents and shopkeepers.
My question to the Policing Minister in the House of Commons on who is best placed to manage parking can be viewed here.
HANSARD: 12 October 2015
Huw Merriman: Rother District Council is one of only 17 remaining local authorities that have not decriminalised on-street parking offences, meaning that the Sussex police and crime commissioner is required to provide police resources to ticket cars that stay longer than two hours in a bay. Will the Minister consider freeing up police resources by requiring those remaining local authorities that enforce in their own car parks to additionally enforce on-street parking?
The Minister for Policing, Crime and Criminal Justice (Mike Penning): Although this is a matter for the local government department, I want as much capability as possible on the streets in every constituency. I do not think issuing parking tickets is a role for a police officer.
Read what MP Huw Merriman has to say to Pevensey constituents exclusively in pages of Bay Life: The Journal from this month
