Restrict parking to solve problem
The council is suggesting putting double yellow lines on both sides of Holbeck from Sea Cliff Road up the schools and also all of Wheatcroft Avenue.
This means that there will be no parking allowed near two primary schools. This is being done apparently to prevent university students from parking all day on these streets.
I am writing to you because I am disgusted that primary school children (aged four to 11 years) will be expected to walk up a long hill to school and back in all weathers. the weather being particularly bad on Holbeck hill in the winter.
This being caused because of
students (aged 18 years and over) who are quite capable of making sure that if they end up getting cold and wet on their journey, that they don't suffer for the rest of the day in wet clothes.
Also many parents, like me, have to take younger children with them up to school in the morning and afternoon to drop off or collect an older brother or sister.
It is bad enough having to take a younger child twice a day, without the added hassle of walking them on a cold, wet and windy day up the aforementioned hill and back. Not something I relish the thought of doing if these parking restrictions come into force.
Clearly the answer to these problems is to restrict the parking in the problem areas to one hour at a time or make them short-term disc zones.
This would benefit parents, pupils and younger siblings at both schools, as well as benefiting the house owners, who would not have the problem of university students parking outside their homes all day.
Surely the needs of young children attending school should take precedence over house owners after all, to my knowledge, the schools were there before the houses.
Also I think the university should be held accountable and made to solve their own students' parking problems without affecting Wheatcroft and St Martin's School parking.
After all, it is because of the university banning students from parking on their premises, that has started the council on this course of action.
Trudy Petrie
Tennyson Avenue
Scarborough
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