Calls for action on Rose Green parking offenders

The anti-parking measure for Nyetimber Lane is being considered after it was demanded at a meeting between the police and residents.

Police community support officer Nick Baker said he agreed parking on the pavement was unacceptable.

"It does block the pavement and it is an obstruction," he said. "Some good solid concrete bollards on the corner will be the answer. I will speak to the county highways department about that."

The issue was raised by resident Roger Tampling who said vehicles were increasingly being left on the pavement at the road's junction with St Anthony's Walk.

He handed photographs he had taken of some of the offenders to PCSO Baker.

"Motorists think it is a natural thing to do '“ to come up on the pavement and park there," he said.

"They keep doing it, even though there are pedestrians there, children and a woman who lives near me who is blind."

The issue of parking dominated last Thursday's community meeting held by PCSOs Baker and Tracy Ford at Aldwick Parish Council's officers. About 40 people attended.

Parish councillor Dr Jim Ramage said he was concerned the parking problems around the Rose Green shops would get worse once the housing at the nearby former Osborne Refrigeration site was completed.

"That problem is only going to be a lot worse quite soon. It is better to have it properly enforced before that happens," he stated.

PCSO Baker said some fixed penalty notices had been handed out to motorists who parked around the shops on double yellow lines and in other restricted areas.

"I want to get the lines re-marked. If you go down there, some of them are quite faint. Partially sighted people especially will have trouble seeing them," he stated.

He said he would also consider using the Speed Indicator Device along Rose Green Road, Nyetimber Lane, Gossamer Lane and Hewarts Lane to counter the speeding which he was aware occurred there.

He explained: "It's purely a way of monitoring the speed of the traffic, not to enforce the speed limit.

"We will take away those results and, if need be, ask the neighbourhood policing team to come out with a speed gun and enforce the limit with tickets."

But he said he also wanted to educate motorists rather than just see them hit with a succession of fixed penalty notices.

He also pledged to visit Aldwick Road after one of its residents complained that drives were being blocked by vehicles parked along the kerbsides all day.

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