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The Mayhew Animal Home, one of London’s busiest and most effective animal welfare sanctuaries and education centres, is being forced to make cuts to its services after a council decision to introduce controlled parking in the area.
The Controlled Parking Zone, which comes into action in November 2006, will cover College Park and north end of Scrubs Lane in North West London, meaning that The Mayhew will lose free parking for its three essential animal ambulances and one service vehicle. The allowance of two parking permits per business in the area will effectively halve The Mayhew’s services. The Mayhew will have to pay £1,760 for the inconvenience.
In a further blow, The Home may be forced to get rid of its main ambulance – which is the only ambulance tailored to transporting multiple animals at once – as it is above the new CPZ height restriction by only 10cm.
Caroline Yates, Acting General Manager of The Mayhew, said: “We are not against some form of parking restrictions in the area but the council is not willing to accommodate any of our perfectly reasonable requests. We can understand that the council can’t let us off paying completely but, as a charity, they could at least offer us residents permits, which are around a quarter of the cost of business permits.”
Despite having worked closely with The Mayhew in the past, Hammersmith & Fulham Council are refusing to cede ground. The Mayhew has asked three times for the Council to provide four parking permits and to allow concessions on the business rates as The Home gets with all other local and national taxes, but the Council are rejecting the arguments.
Longterm supporter of The Mayhew, Brian Sewell, has said that the attitude of the council towards The Mayhew’s requests for some leniency has been ‘indicative of their thoughtlessness’.
The Mayhew has occupied the same site in College Park since 1886, when it was given specifically for the purposes of setting up an animal welfare charity. Every year, The Mayhew rescues and rehomes thousands of unwanted, abused and abandoned animals, many of them found stray on the streets of London. In addition to this, The Mayhew runs an extensive outreach programme into the community, helping and educating the public about responsible animal care. The Mayhew runs low-cost veterinary clinics for the community, meaning that people who would not otherwise be able to afford treatment for their pets can receive the medical assistance they need. In a not unnotable irony, Hammersmith & Fulham Council recently approved plans for The Mayhew to open a new, extended community veterinary clinic, thereby permitting The Mayhew to extend its services even further into the community.
To show your support to The Mayhew Animal Home, please sign our petition above and forward the link below to any friends or colleagues who may wish to sign up:
www.mayhewanimalhome.org/howtohelpus/appeals/cpz/petition.html
The Controlled Parking Zone, which comes into action in November 2006, will cover College Park and north end of Scrubs Lane in North West London, meaning that The Mayhew will lose free parking for its three essential animal ambulances and one service vehicle. The allowance of two parking permits per business in the area will effectively halve The Mayhew’s services. The Mayhew will have to pay £1,760 for the inconvenience.
In a further blow, The Home may be forced to get rid of its main ambulance – which is the only ambulance tailored to transporting multiple animals at once – as it is above the new CPZ height restriction by only 10cm.
Caroline Yates, Acting General Manager of The Mayhew, said: “We are not against some form of parking restrictions in the area but the council is not willing to accommodate any of our perfectly reasonable requests. We can understand that the council can’t let us off paying completely but, as a charity, they could at least offer us residents permits, which are around a quarter of the cost of business permits.”
Despite having worked closely with The Mayhew in the past, Hammersmith & Fulham Council are refusing to cede ground. The Mayhew has asked three times for the Council to provide four parking permits and to allow concessions on the business rates as The Home gets with all other local and national taxes, but the Council are rejecting the arguments.
Longterm supporter of The Mayhew, Brian Sewell, has said that the attitude of the council towards The Mayhew’s requests for some leniency has been ‘indicative of their thoughtlessness’.
The Mayhew has occupied the same site in College Park since 1886, when it was given specifically for the purposes of setting up an animal welfare charity. Every year, The Mayhew rescues and rehomes thousands of unwanted, abused and abandoned animals, many of them found stray on the streets of London. In addition to this, The Mayhew runs an extensive outreach programme into the community, helping and educating the public about responsible animal care. The Mayhew runs low-cost veterinary clinics for the community, meaning that people who would not otherwise be able to afford treatment for their pets can receive the medical assistance they need. In a not unnotable irony, Hammersmith & Fulham Council recently approved plans for The Mayhew to open a new, extended community veterinary clinic, thereby permitting The Mayhew to extend its services even further into the community.
To show your support to The Mayhew Animal Home, please sign our petition above and forward the link below to any friends or colleagues who may wish to sign up:
www.mayhewanimalhome.org/howtohelpus/appeals/cpz/petition.html
