Look at this beautiful image of Horsham in West Sussex…
The street is paved in high quality materials. There are no yellow lines. There’s planting. It looks like a place you’d like to be in.
What more could any place want?
Look at the trees in planters – they’re moveable. They can be placed anywhere according to the needs of the day. They can be moved by the emergency services if they’re ever in the way.
This is the benefit of careful design: thinking the problem through and finding a solution that works under many different scenarios. The elegant hand of beauty.
And isn’t this exactly what Faversham needs too?
What is especially remarkable and relevant for Faversham is that East Street in Horsham didn’t always look this pretty:
Look at the double yellow lines, the tarmac, the dull municipal road signage. The single tree. The heavy hand of plodding transport planning.
If Horsham can get rid of its yellow lines then why can’t Faversham?
The answer is: we can. We just need to choose to do so.
We need to accept that there are other, and better, ways to control parking that respect the historic fabric of the town, that celebrate life and that seek the best solution for the place – not the dull, municipal average.
Tim Stonor for Faversham 
Yes, I’m for getting rid of the yellow lines and you’ll find many more people who who feel the same way. There’s a lot I’d like to add also, like benches for the aged to rest their weary bones. It’s very undignified for an aged person to have to ‘lean’ on a litter bin or be forced into a cafe where they’d probably not have gone anyway, just in order to sit down.
Hey ho.
Regards
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This looks great! As though someone added colour to an old photo of the town, pre beuaracratic mayhem. I expect the traffic wardens are enjoying their retirement too.
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