Ace Parade chaos

Ace Parade, Chessington roadworks

Parking and loading bays suspended, erratic closures to the slip road, incorrect signage installed, parking tickets wrongly issued, barriers and groundwork debris everywhere … all combining to cause chaos for vehicles and frustration, confusion and stress to residents, customers and businesses. And what for? For an additional two electric vehicle charging points that aren’t needed or wanted.
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Valuable free parking spaces at Ace Parade lost

Unfortunately, despite our best efforts, and those of residents and businesses, and our local councillors, valuable free parking spaces at Ace Parade, Chessington, will be lost. The Transport for London (TfL)/Zest project to add a further two electric vehicle (EV) charging points is going ahead with works now underway (17th February). We have subsequently heard from TfL that, due to some technical issues during the exploratory works, there will be just one further EV charging point installed. The works are expected to be completed by the end of March.

The petition was to maintain the maximum number of parking bays possible, open to all visitors to the shops and businesses at Ace Parade – especially for patients visiting the Ace Pharmacy.

Thank you to everyone who supported the campaign and signed the petition.

The Post Office fortress counter at Hook Parade stays put

Post Office at Tesco Express Chessington

Tesco Express on Hook Parade is now open following the recent closure for refurbishment and the Post Office fortress counter remains in its existing position. There were plans to close the fortress counter and for the post office services to operate from a counter along the existing supermarket checkouts. CDRA set up a petition and were delighted to hear, just before the store closed for the refurbishment, that the existing fortress counter would stay put.

A big shout out to the store manager, Marius, and his team at Tesco Hook Parade along with the senior management team of Tesco. Thank you for listening and taking notice of our petition to maintain this essential service.

The post office at Hook Parade provides residents with the full complement of post office counter services in a professional and welcoming way. Sadly, the post office service provided at Morrison’s North Parade – where the counter moved to alongside the supermarket checkout – is quite different.

We will keep the petition open and continue to collect signatures in case the situation changes.
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