Joined-up policy for Gunnersbury please

ALTHOUGH I welcomed your article “Gunnersbury charges planned” [Gazette October 9], it did lack insight to important impacts arising from the charging proposals.

As a rule I believe in ‘squeezing’ motor vehicle use, but not when this will result in displacement of parking and when other plans will increase the number of vehicle journeys.

Surrounding streets are not ‘already tightly controlled’. The locality ‘south of the (Piccadilly) tracks’, has limited Controlled Parking Zone (CPZ) for only two separate hours per weekday and parking is uncontrolled at weekends.

When Lovebox and other crowd pullers are running at Gunnersbury, specific parking restrictions are required. And when Brentford Stadium is complete and jumping, then it is likely that visitors will soon appreciate that our streets are only a walk away from the venue.

What a shame that these matters are not joined-up in planning. And Gunnersbury Park has been developed to be accessed by motor vehicles.

No walking and cycling routes have been provided to/from our local streets, and there is no strategy to consider impact on the neighbourhoods beside the park.

Our streets and residents have largely been forgotten in the rush to make a profitable destination. We residents would like to enjoy the Park and generally we could access by sustainable transport.

It is alarming that wellbeing, ‘healthy streets’ and the environment have been ignored. This is contrary to the policies of both Hounslow and Ealing and also the Mayor of London. Peter Treadgold Gunnersbury Park locality