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Are there double standards on juggernaut parking rules?
• IN a week when you report boozing and parking issues in Kentish Town (July 16) it is puzzling to witness vigilant wardens “ticketing” supermarket juggernauts and ignoring the motorised coffee shop parked on the pavement by the newly refurbished canopy outside the Tube station.
In the first instance, it seems tough on those trading from rateable and expensively rentable shops to see such trading off the kerb and secondly having a parked motor vehicle stationed with impunity on the footway seems double standards.
Furthermore the vehicle in question contributes to footway congestion in the morning rush hour as people squeeze past the coffee queue. I always thought the utter pointlessness of the £180,000 canopy refurbishment was its ambition. Please let’s clear the canopy not of its sitters but of its incongruous pavement parker – a coffee shop on the railway premises would be more appropriate allowing the aroma to scent the area.
Peter Cuming
Talacre Road, NW5
Clamp them!
• SUPERMARKETS would soon stop parking their large lorries indiscriminently were they to be clamped instead of fined. And it would free Camden of the accusation that they want the income and not freedom from the congestion caused.
Adrian Betham
North Road, N6
Bigger fines may be the answer
• YOUR front page last week rightly pointed out the menace posed by Tesco lorries in our neighbourhood.
I have been in contact with many residents recently who, like me, are very angry that their lorries block our streets with apparent impunity – because Tesco can simply afford to pay the parking fines.
I am organising a meeting with local residents and Tesco to try and find a solution to this problem. I will write again with the date and place, which is likely to be in September, so that readers can come along and join me in trying to find an urgent solution. Unless a solution can be urgently found, then Camden Council must start to levy much higher parking fines for large supermarket lorries.
Cllr Chris Philp
Conservative Parliamentary candidate, Hampstead & Kilburn
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