PARISH councils are urging people to get involved with Hart District Council’s latest consultation.

Hart’s parking survey is to help the council consider its future on and off streetparking provision.

“The results of this survey will help the council prioritise its work on parking for the future.”

Both Hook and Odiham Parish Councils are urging local residents to fill in the survey so that any qualms they may have about parking local to them will have the possibility of being taken into account.

For example there is a two-hour parking limit on Odiham High Street which means people leave their cars in the surrounding residential roads and closes, where it is free to park all day.

This has caused many an inconvenience to residents and also causes problems for larger vehicles and local grassland looked after by Hart council, as people park in all sorts of unreasonable ways as space gets tight.

The survey will give people the chance to air their concerns and issues with the current restrictions, as well as any other issues they feel blight the local area.

The survey is open until June 30 at 4pm and can be found at www.hart.gov.uk/parking-survey-2016.

Hart have however announced some good news in regards to parking for one of the biggest local events of the year, after it decided there would be free parking at numerous locations for the Fleet Carnival.

The district council has agreed with the Fleet and District Carnival committee to support this year’s Fleet Carnival by offering free parking in all council-owned car parks across Fleet.

Ahead of the event, they will make costless parking available from 6pm on July 1 until midnight on July 3.

The car parks that fall under the category are Church Road, Civic Offices Central Courtyard, Gurkha Square, Harlington Way and Victoria Road.

Claire Brown, chairman of the Fleet and District Carnival, said: “We are absolutely thrilled that Hart District Council has very kindly granted free car parking in their car parks for the whole of the carnival weekend and hope that this encourages as many people as possible to get involved.”