Day 076 - 18 Jan 95 - Page 10

     
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     2   Q.   In the morning?
     3        A.  No, in the evening, sorry.  In the morning, it depends
     4        on when residents came back from dinner, if they did, but,
     5        in fact, it is parked up.  We did a survey of car parking
     6        in the area and Smith Street at the moment is fully parked
     7        up every evening.
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     9   Q.   In the evening.  What about during the day-time, what is
    10        the parking like generally?
    11        A.  Well, the first, I think the first four houses have got
    12        parking meters so they, of course, are changing the whole
    13        time technically because you are only allowed to stay two
    14        hours, maybe four hours, I am not certain.  Then it becomes
    15        residents parking.  Residents parking tends to stay pretty
    16        well parked up all day either by local residents who do not
    17        take their car to work or by other residents from anywhere
    18        in Kensington and Chelsea who are coming to shop at the
    19        Kings Road.  They, of course, use the residents'.
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    Q.   So, as a rough guide to the parking situation and cars in
    22        general, for the streets -- take for Smith Street first.
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    24   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  Can I just put the picture, if I wanted to go
    25        any time during normal meter hours from somewhere west of
    26        your area, I would be an incurable optimist if I hoped that
    27        I would easily find a parking meter bay to park on?
    28        A.  Yes.
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    30   Q.   I would expect to see the residents' bays full or virtually
    31        full?
    32        A.  That is right, sir.
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    34   Q.   You say after 6.30 when the parking restrictions stop
    35        anyway, it is, to use your phrase, fully parked up?
    36        A.  Fully parked up.
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    38   MR. MORRIS:  On Sundays what is the sort of parking situation
    39        like, generally?
    40        A.  Well, it is much easier, until about 10 o'clock when,
         of course, we then start getting the supermarkets which are
    42        now open on Sundays -- they did not used to be -- but we
    43        then get all the Safeway and Marks & Spencer parking coming
    44        into our street.  So we are pretty parked up from 10
    45        o'clock on Sunday afterwards.
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    47   Q.   Would you say, from your experience of walking around -- do
    48        you walk around, by the way, the other streets, Wellington
    49        Square, Woodfall Street, St. Leonard's Terrace, Royal
    50        Avenue and Walpole Street, do you walk around those streets 
    51        from time to time? 
    52        A.  Yes, yes.  I mean, they are all neighbouring streets 
    53        but I have friends in Wellington Square and Royal Avenue.
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    55   Q.   You go there regularly?
    56        A.  Yes.
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    58   Q.   Would you say the parking situation is similar or different
    59        from Smith Street?
    60        A.  We get the worst of it because we are the first clear