People in Baylis and Stoke have ‘lost faith’ in Slough Borough Council after it ‘ignored’ their arguments against parking permits, a councillor has said.

The council is planning on introducing controlled parking zones (CPZs) across the whole of the borough. But councillor Fiza Matloob is calling on the council to halt the rollout.

He said residents in Baylis and Stoke feel they haven’t been listened to after CPZs were rolled out there despite a petition against them signed by more than 1,400 people and objections by 550 residents.

He told the Observer: “The residents did a petition that had over 1,000 signatures. Residents felt all of that was just ignored and it was a waste of time. The residents say they’ve lost trust in the council and there’s no point taking part in consultations.”

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Two CPZs were rolled out in Baylis and Stoke ward in August. It means that parking permits are needed on 12 streets in the ward.

But councillor Matloob argues that the CPZs aren’t necessary on those streets. He said parking had only been a problem on two streets – Stoke Poges Lane and Ploughlees Lane – near the Horlicks Quarter development.

This development has been designed to be largely ‘car free’ and will have just 494 parking spaces for more than 1,300 homes once complete.

Residents of The Warehouse on the Horlicks Quarter told the Observer in October they’d been left with ‘nowhere to park’ as the majority of affordable housing was sold without parking.

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Councillor Matloob said: “If there is an issue the developers of Horlicks needs to resolve that issue – it shouldn’t be that the residents of the surrounding area are penalised.”

Councillor Matloob is now calling on Slough Borough Council to halt the rollout of CPZs to other areas of Slough. The council wants to introduce controlled parking zones gradually in a ‘phased approach’, with the public consulted in each area.

In a proposal to be debated by councillors, he wants the council to ‘publicly acknowledge and address the concerns raised by residents’. And he wants it to ‘explore alternatives’ to CPZs.

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He added that CPZs won’t work in every part of Slough. He said: “There are areas where a CPZ will work, but neighbourhoods like this, it’s not going to work. I’m sure there’s a whole bunch of areas where residents don’t want CPZs.

“All this will do is make the residents lose any bit of trust they’ve got left with the council.”

Councillors are set to debate and vote on councillor Matloob’s call at a meeting on Thursday, November 28.

The Observer attempted to contact Paul Kelly – the councillor responsible for highways – for comment.