I’m afraid so.
Ummm that’s not good as I haven’t got an app on phone to delete account. It was done via phoning the number. I couldn’t park at kings hospital, Croydon, Dulwich. Not great when you really need to park somewhere. 
For a bit of perspective, I’ve paid £10 to park all day in the Barbican NCP today.
You can sometimes beat local car park charges by using the Just Park app, where you book online and use a privately owned space often in someone’s driveway. Within a couple of minutes walk of Forest Hill station all day slots are about £4-6.
I’ve used in quite a few different towns - rates vary per hour or per day, but it’s usually priced well against local competition.
If you happen to have a private space in an in-demand area that you would like to rent out occasionally you can get a small income stream going too.
It does sound like an app that encourages extra pollution on local residential streets and might end up removing council car parking facilities as they become less profitable but perhaps inevitable.
Yes, why don’t you move your car from your driveway, park it on the street and deprive local residents of on-street parking so you can make extra income and add to local pollution.
On a more positive note, I think the council should look at providing some kind of incentive to residents to re-wild their driveways if they are not in use so that they can improve the local environment perhaps paid for by a local tax on people who rent out their driveways. Most people prefer looking at a garden than paving.
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I don’t like our streets and pavements being suffocated with private car parking.
Just Park provides a service that there seems to be a market for. I think it’s a pretty smart business idea.
There’s no point paying for a Just Park space if car parking is free and available.
Many people with spaces live in restricted public parking zones and so offer space where there is no public space or where it is commonly full.
Just Park space owners often do not have cars themselves.
Many Just Park spaces are in underused private car parks eg those belonging to small businesses.
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Not without an App it seems. So technophobes, anyone who physically can’t operate or doesn’t possess a smartphone or people like me who just don’t do financial transactions on their phone are excluded from parking in Lewisham’s car parks. Perhaps LBL’s Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Manager ought to intervene.
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Re my earlier post, para 2c is the one I was referring to that mentioned the option for the fleet of foot to pay in cash in some shops. Extract below:
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On my street most of the driveways are now paved - yet another one added this week. So unfortunately I think people prefer looking at a car in their front garden than plants…… presumably the council gets an income from residents having to pay for crossovers being installed? (Those that bother!)
It does ruin the look of a street, but it’s difficult to park otherwise so I can see why they do it.
I can as well.
Currently there is overwhelming benefit in turning your garden into a driveway, making streets Greyer so I think it is the rational choice.
- Give yourself a dedicated car parking space so you can park near your house
- Privatise the road outside your driveway so no pesky commuters, school run parents, neighbours can park there.
- Increase the value of your house,
Keeping a garden is rarely going to win.
It is ironic we have indirect subsidies from Lewisham to turn gardens into car parks while they are also subsidising turning a car park into a green space at the station. The strategic Making Lewisham Greener should recognise that keeping gardens by the sides of roads is indirect green space that benefits us all. It doesn’t mention it at all.
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I agree that app only parking discriminates against the elderly and those who cannot use smartphone for any reason. I choose not to put any financial transactions on phone for security. This means that I cannot use Pearcefield Road car park any more. I try to shop on foot where possible but where it is not I will be going to Bell Green. So much for supporting local traders.
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Marymck suggested in response to my earlier post that the fleet of foot could pay cash in some shops but when I checked the nearest paypoint was on Dartmouth Road which would give the wardens plenty of time to slap a ticket on your car especially bearing in mind the age and abilities of most people that don’t live on their phone - not very “inclusive” is it?
So, like you I will drive an extra 4 mile round trip and pollute Bell Green instead.
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You don’t have to have a smartphone to pay by phone. Instead you can phone a number and enter details that way. You will need the location code, your registration number, and a credit card to access the two hour free parking. The nearest pay phone is on the other side of the South Circular - so in theory nobody needs to feel excluded by the technology and should be able to complete the registration process before the two hours expire.
But it is much easy to do shopping further away if you don’t have the appropriate technology.
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Buy this wouldn’t prevent a ticket, would it? You would need to register before your grace period is over, which IIRC is 15 mins.
Edit: oh, perhaps you were joking.
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Thanks for this. However reading your card details out in a public place is not very secure.
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You don’t speak them aloud when you do the over the phone service. They’re typed in when prompted.
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Ah thanks. So you key it in on the phone? Which is what I don’t want to do. I think putting any bank or card details into phone is risky
It sounds like your best option is to drive to dartmouth road, pop in and pay nothing for the right the park elsewhere, then drive round to the car park. Somehow I’ve made this sound simple rather than farcical.
If you need the location code it is 803762.
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This scheme is possibly brought to you by the same sort of people who would require you to pop to Brussels to fill in a visa application when you’ve fled your home with no money and only the clothes you stand up in. Oh or to find a working computer or smartphone with internet connection on the fields of Armageddon.
Whatever happened to a little thing called commonsense?
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We voted to leave the commonsense.
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