Patients to blame for car parking problems

Some of the car parking is by employees of either organisation, but the vast majority tends to be patients who don’t use the car parking provided.

The impact this selfish parking has on the lives of residents is totally unacceptable, and the verbal abuse some residents have received from those selfish idiots, who clearly need lessons in good manners and parking, is appaling.

Residents consistently have their driveways blocked, rubbish collection lorries cannot get down the roads and last week an ambulance had to park at the entrance to a street, as it was unable to get past and the crew had to walk down to collect the patient!

I can go on record as saying I cannot disagree further with Essex County Council over its lack of willingness to impose parking restrictions in all side roads off Turner Road.

It is what the majority of residents want, and it is the only feasible way of dealing with the issues in the medium term.

This is only just the beginning of the fight and residents can rest assured that ward councillor Anne Turrell, Lib Dem prospective candidate for the Mile End ward Scott Greenhill and myself will fight for the rights of local residents all the way to the top.

Martin Goss
Councillor
Dickenson Road
Colchester

...With regard to your article headlined: “NHS workers cause a parking headache”, I was at the meeting on Monday, but my recollection of it differs widely from your correspondent’s description.

There was some mention of parking by primary care trust staff in nearby roads, but the main issue was the intolerable nuisance caused by out-patients, and other hospital visitors, parking in Kingswood Road and other turnings near the General Hospital, and the blank refusal of the county council’s highways department to admit there is a problem and, therefore, to take any remedial action.

J.H. Chinnery
Kingswood Road
Colchester