http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ CityCyclingEdinburgh Forum » Topic: Leith Controlled Parking Zone en Thu, 21 May 2026 09:08:25 +0000 http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=16789#post-344910 Mon, 25 Jan 2021 21:09:18 +0000 crowriver 344910@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Such supplies will be smuggled by shifty looking characters over the internal border from the "Greenport" of Leith Docks' contraband warehousing operations. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=16789#post-344908 Mon, 25 Jan 2021 20:00:12 +0000 gembo 344908@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Imagine if you put the pause between the second and the third word. A parrying zone Comtrolled By Leith</p> <p>Cars only allowed in if driver has supply of reefer? </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=16789#post-344907 Mon, 25 Jan 2021 19:49:40 +0000 Rob 344907@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Much relieved to hear this as it will be absolutely required once the John Lewis warehouse is converted into "low car" flats. Hopefully the amount of on street parking will be reduced at the same time and/or residents there will struggle to get permits. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=16789#post-344903 Mon, 25 Jan 2021 19:19:32 +0000 crowriver 344903@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>It's finally happening! Still a year away though...</p> <p>"Phase one of a four-phase roll out of controlled parking zones will see parking restrictions implemented in Leith, Gorgie and Shandon - specifically in the Leith Walk, Pilrig, Abbeyhill and North Leith areas."</p> <p>"Following the legal process, a second consultation on phase one is set to be launched in quarter four of 2021, followed by a planned implementation in quarter one of 2022. "</p> <p>"Furthermore, Leith will be set for further restrictions, as phase two also includes plans for Willowbrae North, West Leith, Bonnington and Easter Road. Consultation on phase two has been delayed by the coronavirus pandemic, with the public responses set to be gathered in quarter two of 2021, and the final implementation planned for quarter two of 2022."</p> <p><a href="https://www.edinburghnews.scotsman.com/news/politics/council/legal-move-implement-controlled-parking-zones-edinburgh-3111603" rel="nofollow">https://www.edinburghnews.scotsman.com/news/politics/council/legal-move-implement-controlled-parking-zones-edinburgh-3111603</a></p> <p>N.B.:- Contrary to the EEN headline, the proposals are not "controversial" and have in fact been widely welcomed in the local area </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=16789#post-280903 Mon, 23 Apr 2018 23:23:49 +0000 crowriver 280903@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>This petition is essentially arguing that the CPZ needs to be extended eastwards and northwards from its current boundaries. It's an official CEC petition.</p> <p>To read and perhaps sign go here (until 10th May):</p> <p><a href="https://www.edinburgh.gov.uk/forms/form/431/en/improving_parking_in_the_leith_central_area_lca" rel="nofollow">https://www.edinburgh.gov.uk/forms/form/431/en/improving_parking_in_the_leith_central_area_lca</a> </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=16789#post-236312 Sat, 12 Nov 2016 14:38:56 +0000 robyvecchio 236312@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Regarding the parking regulations around Leith Walk we are getting some momentum and we need to keep the ball rolling.</p> <p>If anyone would like to help us keeping the pressure on, you can write to the Traffic Orders and Project Development Officer (PM me for details) </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=16789#post-228936 Tue, 30 Aug 2016 13:43:30 +0000 kaputnik 228936@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>We're not on the periphery of a CPZ, or in one, but we're right handy for quick buses along London Road into town and certainly the streets get used as a park and ride facility. Off-peak, there's generally always at least 1 or 2 free spaces in our fairly small street. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=16789#post-228886 Tue, 30 Aug 2016 12:24:03 +0000 wingpig 228886@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>We'd be in it. I'd vote for it, particularly if it involved clarification of which bits of road are considered officially parkable and which (usually the bits directly opposite or on bends or on footways) are not. I assume there'd be a sudden rash of people converting their front gardens to driveways like our neighbours did two years ago.<br /> Lochend Drive is outside the proposed zone, so maybe they could fit in an extra layer on the footway by parking closer to the hedges, or go end-on. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=16789#post-228878 Tue, 30 Aug 2016 12:18:57 +0000 crowriver 228878@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Agree that anti-social parking is a huge issue. Presumably controlling parking encourages more enforcement?</p> <p>I'm on the edge of the CPZ, just beyond it. Definitely commuters parking up in my street to avoid having to pay.</p> <p>I'll be voting in favour of the proposal! </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=16789#post-228781 Tue, 30 Aug 2016 10:49:59 +0000 dougal 228781@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>@kaputnik 100% agreement there! The double parkers, double-red parkers anad pavement loaders are as present as ever. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=16789#post-228761 Tue, 30 Aug 2016 10:14:49 +0000 kaputnik 228761@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I think Leith would benefit less from a CPZ patrolled by wardens to ensure "revenue enforcement", and more from some better attention by wardens to enforce existing issued of double / antisocial parking. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=16789#post-228611 Mon, 29 Aug 2016 12:11:12 +0000 Klaxon 228611@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Are the existing fringes in Morningside or Cameron toll 'problem areas'? I have no knowedge of them in that regard. They're a lot more than 15 minutes walk to major employment centres </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=16789#post-228609 Mon, 29 Aug 2016 12:02:18 +0000 robyvecchio 228609@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>The community council argued that extending the CPZ to cover the problematic area just pushes the problem down the road (and I believe it too).<br /> Maybe extending it all the way to Leith it's too much? </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=16789#post-228592 Mon, 29 Aug 2016 11:24:25 +0000 Klaxon 228592@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Living on the exact edge of the CPZ it's a daily disaster.</p> <p>I calculated it before, the rest of the CPZ boundary is twice as far from the city centre as we are making 'park and walk' from the Leith Walk area a very real option for New Town office workers. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=16789#post-228560 Mon, 29 Aug 2016 10:19:33 +0000 dougal 228560@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Leith is probably one of the few areas of town where car ownership is low enough that controlled parking isn't a necessity. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=16789#post-228556 Mon, 29 Aug 2016 09:56:23 +0000 robyvecchio 228556@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I'm not surprised, however the overparking problem is concentrated on the limit of the currently controlled area. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=16789#post-228515 Sun, 28 Aug 2016 12:51:39 +0000 Stickman 228515@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>May be of interest:</p> <p><a href="https://www.change.org/u/498059660" rel="nofollow">https://www.change.org/u/498059660</a></p> <p><em><br /> It is the intention of Leith Central Community Council at its meeting of 19 September 2016 to discuss whether it wishes to call upon the City of Edinburgh Council to introduce controlled parking to the whole of Leith.<br /> In this case, the whole of Leith was clarified as being Leith Ward 13 &amp; Leith Walk Ward 12, the same area as Leith Neighbourhood Partnership. A map can be viewed here.</em></p> <p>There are two petitions from the same person: one pro and one anti, to gauge opinion. So far the anti petition has the most signatures. </p>