Quoted from spartacus

Careful what you wish for...........
Problem is, once you get rid of them (or even drastically cut back their numbers) there WILL be chaos.....  Not death on the streets and rabid frothing at mouth type chaos, but word will get around (via the local rag and sites like this) that West Berks is a free for all and cars will be pretty much abandoned outside shops, on pavements, in loading bays, in disabled bays, in bus stops , on double yellow lines, outside school gates, and it wouldn't be too long before some would be demanding they come back .... (I'm not joking!!     )

There are a fair number of shop owners who currently say that the wardens are 'scaring away trade'.  Well that may or may not be true but I'd say that's more just an easy excuse to point at when the main factor determining low numbers of customers through the door is the harsh economy and lack of pennies in the pocket....

Imagine you're a shop owner in this 'park for free town', needing daily delivery but your supplier constantly has problems because the nearest loading areas are always full of cars.  How long would suppliers put up with it if it's constantly impacting on their deliveries elsewhere... Shop owner would want something done...  The police certainly wouldn't be interested and won't ever have parking put back under their wing... Who would they turn to?? Who they gonna call? (Ghostbusters don't do parking enforcement either....)

If I remember rightly (and I do... ...) Maidenhead went for several months without any form of parking enforcement in 2006.  The council took over the powers from the police (who dropped it like a hot potato) but the council decided not to go to the bother of employing wardens and had a few months of 'Live & Let Live'.  Chaos ensued...

This archived Maidenhead forum rant gives an idea  (feel the anger of Mr Shopkeeper...   )

http://www.maidenhead-advertiser.co.uk/forums/showthread.php?t=1712

Still...... it's an idea.... Hell, let's give it a shot!! Return to the Wild West of Newbury!  yeee-haw!

Quoted from blackdog

Surely the issue is not about removing all CEOs and announcing to the world that there is no parking enforcement in Newbury.  It is about finding out how few CEOs are enough to deter illegal parking.  This, surely, is their purpose.

Before the CEOs we had a few Traffic Wardens (how many?) I suspect far fewer than there are CEOs.  Was illegal parking too much of a problem then? I guess some resident of places like Russell Road might not have been happy with the enforcement of residents' parking schemes. Perhaps a couple of extra CEOs to enforce these and a few more to directly replace the Traffic Wardens would have been adequate.

Instead WBC hire an army of CEOs on the basis of a wildly optimistic assessment of the income they will raise from fines. About the same time they convert three Wharf car parks to pay on exit (further reducing fine income). Most people would start with a low number and increase them until the illegal parking was down to an acceptable level. Not WBC.

Quoted from user23.3

Aren't there around four or five that cover Newbury? Seems like a sensible number to me.

Quoted from user23.3

Aren't there around four or five that cover Newbury? Seems like a sensible number to me.

Quoted from brian

You ask the question but make it appear as if you had stated a fact. So, how many CEO's will be working in Newbury on a weekday including Saturday, and how many on a Sunday.

Quoted from user23.3

Seems like a sensible number to me.