I’m fortunate enough to meet people who are making a real difference in our community as part of my job as Deputy Leader of the Council.Today was no exception. I met Liz Wilson, Head Teacher at Sutton High Junior School and we talked about how she is working with children and parents and the Council’s parking team to make the roads safer for children on their way to and from school.
Mrs Wilson has welcomed the council’s high-tech smart car as a deterrent to dangerous parking. The car is fitted with a CCTV camera and it patrols the roads near Sutton High Junior School and other schools in the borough, monitors parking on zig-zags or yellow lines.
Over the past 18 months anyone that caught parking dangerously on camera has then been sent a warning explaining that his or her parking is dangerous. But from 1 October people parking in this way may get a £100 fine.
To help parents the Council has provided a number of special ‘park and stride’ bays in nearby roads to encourage parents to park a little further from the school gates.
This and other driver friendly ideas in Sutton led to the Council issuing the lowest number of parking tickets in London last year, and receiving the fewest appeals according to figures release by London Councils in August.
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