14.03.21

Parking Restrictions Update

Earlier this year we reported a significant development in the long-standing issues of car parking on the Clarion Gate residential estate, where Hamptons is located, and the effects of parking availability at Hamptons being insufficient to cater for the centre’s various uses. Read more on this here

A number of local residents contacted us last week to inform us that the management company responsible for the estate (Warwick Estates) have now written to all residents to update them and formally confirm these developments. Extracts of this letter are shown below:

Land Ownership – Green Area next to Tydemans

“Last year it came to light that the Green area located along Tydemans should have been transferred into the ownership of the Management Company, when the development was constructed. An oversight on Crest Nicholson part meant this transfer did not happen.

We are however now happy to report that this has been rectified and the ownership is in the final stages of being transferred.”

Parking Enforcement

“Parking enforcement from UK Car Park Management Ltd have recently been appointed to patrolling the following areas of the development;

-        The Green next to Lambourne Chase

-        The Green next to Tydemans

-        A small section of road on Ashmeads

-        Fairbridge and Blackmore House Car Park areas

This is in response to resident complaints of historic parking problems on the development.”

Residents will have noticed parking enforcement signs appear on the development, however these were swiftly removed after a complaint received, from none other than Chelmsford City Council. Apparently they were not happy that these signs had been fixed to street lampposts, or perhaps, given the speed at which the complaint had been received, someone locally had complained?

We understand that these signs will soon be reinstated on dedicated posts in those areas owned by the management company, which includes the green space by Tydemans that has historically (and illegally) used by Hamptons as an “overflow car park”. Residents will be delighted to hear that this use will not only no longer be tolerated, but will now also be enforced.

Unfortunately this will push the parking problems outwards on to the adjacent residential roads. Having conducted our own Parking Beat Survey last year, we know that there is already considerable parking pressure on the spaces in the non restricted roads around Hamptons.

With the place of worship (for up to 1000 people) now wrongly deemed lawful by the council (alongside existing uses ), we predict a significant increase in parking related issues and disturbances in local roads around Hamptons.

TVO