on the record
When the plans first came out, the 900 space new car park was going to be along Studios Road, next to the one we already have, and extending down the field by the residents homes and the reservoir. We fought this as much as we could to get it moved. When we were told about the multi-storey car park we were happy to hear this. Hence No Objection.
Staff who have swipe ID cards and work in any of the buildings along Studios Road, or who will work in the new buildings behind Oberon Way will continue to access the site via Studios Road. So we will still have in-creased traffic along our road. Those workers will not go via the main entrance.
We on the Studios Estate have had many is-sues with cars parking on the road from the Studios for over 11 years and have been in discussions with the Studios and SCC during all this time. Due to the fact we were shown where the yellow lines would go we turned them down, as they would go into our estate and cause issues for our residents. However this year the parking situation was so bad again. Not only were residents affected but the bus service almost refused to enter the estate and any emergency vehicle would have had serious issues had they needed to come down. We were pushed to our limits and said something must be done.
Thanks to the support of the Studios and the SCC a temporary parking suspension was put in place lasting until just before Christmas. This made such a difference. If cars parked we reported them and they were ticketed. They soon stopped parking there!
When SCC replaced the signs after Christmas, we didn’t know that they would no longer ticket them until several of us rang up to com-plain as cars parking along the road again. We were told that SCC had told the enforcement team NOT to ticket cars any more.
We looked at the issue of yellow lines and were told this time we could say where we wanted them and unless there was a legal rea-son why we couldn’t have them it should be OK. We consulted all the residents on the estate. The majority wanted double yellow lines. We passed this information on. We were told it would take about 18 months to get them passed through SCC.
We are now getting temporary double yellow lines lasting 18 months . This is happening so fast because Shepperton Studios have offered to pay for them. Hopefully SCC will then make them permanent after.
Studios Road is the only access/exit road we have. If it gets blocked or closed we are com-pletely stuck.
Netflix are only renting from the Studios. The Studios are financially benefiting from this contract and pay taxes on it.
Our estate has so many more issues to deal with: Lights shining in to our homes; noisy generators 24/7; cars, vans, HGV’s coming on to our estate; workers sleeping in their vans outside our homes with engines running, pow-ering their TV’s and heating; being woken up just after 06.00am, when work starts before they are supposed to; constant dirt and dust in and on our home and cars; filth on our road, to name but a few. We deal directly with the Studios and they try their best to solve the issues. Not all issues solved but they have listened to us.
I hope this sheds light on our situation and stops negativity towards us.