Hi all - many of you will have started receiving a letter from the Council about the introduction of parking arrangements. The difficulty in finding parking and the additional traffic created by drivers using the area to park and get on the shuttle buses for Tottenham Stadium or events in Ally pally has been raised several times with officers and the Council has agree to consult residents on the issue.
The Council is proposing to introduce parking controls that will prioritise parking for residents when events (sports or entertainment) are taking place at Alexandra Palace or Tottenham Hotspur Stadium. The event day operational times will be matching those used in other areas of the borough (Monday to Friday 5pm to 8.30pm, and Saturday, Sunday and public holidays 12 noon to 8pm) and would only be enforced when an event is taking place at Alexandra Palace or Tottenham Hotspur Stadium. The area proposed for parking controls during event days cover all roads that are currently within the existing Alexandra Palace (AP) controlled parking zone (CPZ) as well as several neighbouring streets ( See picture).
In particular:
- For roads within Alexandra Palace CPZ, the proposed Event Day controls would sit alongside existing parking arrangements and parking on event days will be free for those residents who hold an Alexandra Palace (AP) CPZ permit.
- Residents living in the Alexandra Palace (AP) CPZ who do not have a parking permit would need to purchase one to be able to park on the road during event day controls and will also be able to park during the current CPZ hours.
- For roads not in the existing Alexandra Palace CPZ, the Council is not planning to introduce daily CPZ controls or extend the current Alexandra Palace (AP) CPZ boundary. Residents will have to apply for a parking permit, but this will be FREE of charge.
More information and FAQs are available in: https://www.haringey.gov.uk/parking/consultations-parking. The deadilne is 19th June. Please take part in the consultation and get in touch if you have any query or there is anything that needs to be clarified in the information or proposal, thank you!
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All - in response to several queries I have received, this is what I have received from officers. Apologies for the late posting as I was away.
The event day CPZ would come into effect when events are taking places at Alexandra Palace or Spurs Stadium with the threshold being when expected patrons exceed 10k. The 10,000 threshold is applied to all event days in the borough to maintain consistency. However, this figure can be amended if required for Alexandra Palace
Zone entry signs would have the dates of any up-and-coming event that meets that threshold advertised a week beforehand which is what happens in other Event Day CPZs in the borough.
The operational times of the CPZ would be set out in the traffic order and would be on the permanent signs so would be at the agreed times and couldn’t be changed for events at different times outside of the set hours of operation of the Event Day CPZ.