Ned Boulting@nedboulting
Sep 22, 2022
4 tweets
I would like to talk about "parklets", and our priorities as a country. Bear with me.
Currently, if you want to park a 
on a street, you pay, in London, on average, just over Β£3 per week for the right to leave your what is basically your private property on the road.
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on a street, you pay, in London, on average, just over Β£3 per week for the right to leave your what is basically your private property on the road.
1/3But if you want to, as a community, repurpose a parking space, to create mini seating, play or meeting area for the street, you'll be paying a HUNDRED times that much (on average) to your local council.
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This is mad.
To find out more, and to join the movement to repurpose our streets, take a look here:
wearepossible.org/parklets
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Itβs been great to feel the support for different ways of imagining street space. But also, so odd to feel the kickback from certain accounts. I mean, my street is a quarter of a mile long and half our pavement space on both sides is taken up by cars. This is not unusual.
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