So I work in a Serviced Office building in Gateshead. It's an old 60's style tower block, 8 storeys high, holding numerous businesses.
It only has parking below it for around 30 cars, which isn't nearly enough especially since many of the businesses run adult training courses with large numbers of clients. But that's okay, cos it's on a nearly empty business park, opposite some wasteground and a bus garage - so there is plenty of parking on the road.
Well at least there was...
The other week the council came along and painted new double yellow lines and parking bays as shown here:
yellow = double yellows, red = marked parking bay, blue dot = my office
Yes, despite the fact that these are all nice wide dead-end streets that only actually run to our office building and the empty building next to it, it is apparently vital they have parking restrictions.
The remaining marked parking bays are no help. Each one is at least twice the size of a car, thus further reducing the available parking.
The for their coup d'état they put up signs on the bay saying "Maximum Parking 2hrs"!
No one here asked for this. It seems likely that all the businesses here will suffer. I imagine many will be tempted to move to different premises, losing clients for the company running the offices.
Can some explain WTF is going on here??
Did the council just have a surplus of yellow paint to use up and decided to use it to destroy a successful local business in an already deprived area?
I do ride to work once a week. Can't do much more than that sadly, cos I need to be available to pick up the wee one from nursery.
why is there inadequate parking for the businesses? My guess would be development is planned or there has been complaints
