HUNDREDS of people have still not received voting slips asking them if they want a proposed Controlled Parking Zone (CPZ) to be introduced - with just days to go before the consultation deadline, campaigners say.
The council is currently undertaking a mass consultation on controversial proposals to make temporary Olympic permit parking rules permanent across Leyton and Leytonstone.
More than 4,700 names have been added to a petition against the measures, which would result in residents having to pay between £22.50p to £120 annually - if they have one car - to park in their street.
The consultation closes on Monday (October 22) but campaigners have launched a last-ditch plea to the council to extend the deadline.
The authority says it will only introduce CPZs in streets where the majority of respondents vote yes, even if only a small minority of people reply to the consultation.
Claudette Samuel, of Melford Road in Leytonstone, organised the petition and believes the proposals are an unnecessary money-making scheme by the council.
She said that hundreds of residents who signed the petition also wrote on it that they had not been sent voting forms.
She said: “There's clearly been a problem with the distribution of the consultation packs.
“The petition shows some quite consistent patterns which homes have been sent them and which haven't. There are parts of whole streets which haven't got them.”
The Guardian has also been inundated with reports from readers.
George Neo, owner of George's Den homeware store in Francis Road, Leyton, said he had requested a voting slip three times but still had not been sent one.
He said: “I've been asking around and all the shops to the left of me have not received the forms, but all the ones on the right have.”
Retired Kenny Evans, 72, of Fladgate Road in Leytonstone, said: “I personally know of about 14 people in my neighbourhood who haven't received their forms.
“And there is one [block of] flats on Dyson Road, which has 60 people in it, which wasn't sent a single one.”
In a separate dispute, the council has rejected more than 2,000 of the signatures collected by Ms Samuels. She is due meet the council to discuss why, but says she was told that some entries had names and addresses but not signatures.
Last week the authority said it was confident that the “vast majority” of homes had received voting forms.
A council spokesman said staff were unable to gain access to the block in Dyson Road so forms were posted on October 5 and many have been returned marked "addressee gone away".
He added that the response rate was similar to other CPZ consultations and encouraged people to contact the council for a form if they had not received one.
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