Church Lane Car Park
Application Number: 2012/1423/LA
The Council has lodged the above planning application to further reduce the size of the Church Lane Shopping Centre Car Park, by installing a multi-use games area including new fences, gates and bollards; and reconfiguration of the car park.
The FOCUS Team believes that the prime function of a shopping centre car park is to attract ‘out of area’ shoppers to the range of independent retailers who do not have their own customer parking facilities. In Leytonstone even Argos must rely on public parking.
A report of the borough’s car parks, presented to the Cabinet, alleged that Church Lane Car Park is underused. The photograph above was taken on a normal weekday and only shows a disabled bay vacant. So much for ‘underused’.
LATE INFORMATION: The installation of the multi-use games area will involve the loss of 18/19 car parking spaces, which will inevitably mean less, or no, spaces for shopper parking.
Full details of the plan should be on the Council’s website – look in the Planning Explorer, quoting the application number.
Comments on this proposal should be sent to:
Development Management, London Borough of Waltham Forest,
Sycamore House, Town Hall Complex,
Forest Road, E17 4JP
Closing date for comments: 4th November