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Oct
Call for parking restrictions on Harrogate street amid 'excessive use of space'
North Yorkshire Council looks set to reject a petition calling for parking restrictions on a street in Harrogate.
Residents on Dragon Avenue submitted a petition calling for Back Dragon Avenue to be changed to a permitted disc zone.
The road is currently unrestricted and is used by both residents and Motorvation Garage.
The petition, which had 21 signatures out of 50 households, said the move would help to “stop the excessive use of spaces for unnecessarily long periods by non-residents”.
It added that it would also see Back Dragon Avenue fall in line with Dragon Road and Dragon Avenue, which have disc parking for three hours from Monday to Friday between 9am and 6pm.
The area which the restrictions would affect.
However, council officials said extending the disc zone “would cause issues on the surrounding network”.
In a report due before the council’s executive next week, Heather Yendell, the authority’s improvement manager, said:
At the moment, these streets can be used as additional parking for multiple surrounding streets which may be oversubscribed during peak times and could detrimentally impact the commercial area directly adjacent the street in question.
She added that the petition had also not seen reached “50% support” and had not “identified a source of funding for the scheme”.
The report recommends that the council’s executive does not support the petition.
Senior councillors will consider the petition at an executive meeting on October 21.
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