We received this blogger entry from Waltham Forest exposing the Council's latest Climate Change Strategy:
"This house on The Risings E17 has a drive and a garage. The Council has cleared the way for the acquisition of up to three more vehicles by permitting footway parking. And naturally if you bow down to the 4 X 4 brigade, they will take even more space than they are allocated...
The Council beseeches residents to ‘Help us tackle climate change’. It grandly announces that it is working on a ‘climate change strategy’ with its ‘partners’.
This is characteristic impudence and hypocrisy on the part of a Council which month by month, year after year, snatches more and more pavement space for car parking, and by so doing promoting multiple car ownership and use at the expense of non-car owning households. Cars so physically dominate our streets, including hundreds of local pavements, that it is easy to forget that nearly half of us in London don’t even own a car.
But now this rush to turn more and more space over to car parking has upset car owners! This is naturally a very serious matter."
