Until the council stops enforcing parking regulations throughout the village it is pure suicide to open a shop in Forest Hill. Potential clients cannot find parking spaces and here goes the clientele to other venues where they can stop without walking 1 mile.

The South Circular is a great asset and sees thousands of cars passing through Forest Hill every day but no one can park.

Pubs and restaurant when not too large can probably survive better with local clients who just have to walk there, but no other shop can - of course.

And the council keep on his mission to destroy this area by implementing paying parking in streets which did not need any like Waldenshaw Road. Since they have done this 1 year ago, the resident on the other side of London Road are left with Taymount Rise to park there car. Result? Well go and have a look a 6pm:
Waldenshaw road has 20 to 30 parking spaces available - empty - and the residents on Taymount rise & London Road have to park their cars at the top of the hill.... when there is space... They cannot park in Waldenshaw Road anymore and do not have the option to buy a yearly parking license!

The next move of the council will most probably be to implement paying parking in Taymount Rise. This of course will make the matter worse.

It is quasy-criminal for the council to do this. Shops open, go broke and close down.... and this since the have implemented double yellow lines and red lines everywhere in town.

This was the death of Aceri as well.

No serious business will hire the ex-Mc Donald until free parking is re-implemented.

I live in Forest Hill for 8 years and have seen it go to pieces for that very reason.

I have emailled the council, and of course they do not give a damn.

It's a shame.