We, the residents, workers and local businesses of Broomhill and Thornwood, are urging Glasgow City Council to scrap the proposed Restricted Parking Zone (RPZ) for our area completely.

We love our community – its schools, small shops, salons, cafés and close‑knit streets – and we believe this RPZ would damage the everyday life that makes Broomhill/Thornwood feel like home.

Why this RPZ is wrong for our community

• Our area does have buses, trains and the subway, but services are often infrequent, unreliable and reduced in the evenings and at weekends. Many residents, carers and customers simply cannot depend on them to get to work, to hospital appointments or to visit family.

• A strict 3‑hour limit and parking charges would punish the very people who keep this community going: carers looking after vulnerable neighbours, tradespeople doing essential repairs, school staff, grandparents doing school runs, and friends and family checking in on elderly or isolated residents.

• Local salons, shops and other small businesses often need customers to stay longer than 3 hours. These rules risk lost income, job losses and shuttered shopfronts on Crow Road and surrounding streets. Once those businesses are gone, they don’t come back easily.

• Bringing in city‑centre style restrictions into a mainly residential neighbourhood treats Broomhill/Thornwood like a problem to be managed, not a community to be supported. It does not fix the root causes of parking pressure or poor public transport.

What we are asking for instead

We are asking Glasgow City Council to:

• Withdraw the RPZ proposal entirely for Broomhill/Thornwood.

• Sit down with residents, carers, schools and local businesses to design fair, targeted solutions that address genuine problem parking without driving away visitors, customers and essential workers.

• Commit to better, more reliable public transport and safer walking and cycling routes, so people have real alternatives to the car instead of being priced or timed out of necessary journeys.

This is our neighbourhood, our livelihoods and our daily lives. We are asking you to listen to the people who live and work here and stop this RPZ.