Factoids of progress..

The Council's annual report is being approved by the Executive on Thursday (along with many other important items including primary school places and the Local Development Framework). A couple of factoids caught my eye that may be of wider interest:

In the last year, the number of car club bays in Camden has grown from 66 to 92 bays and is still growing. Very encouragingly, car club membership, with a variety of operators, has risen from 2051 to 4050 and is still growing fast. Camden is part of the "Car Crunch London Scheme" whereby if you give up a resident's permit, you get 2 years free membership with a car club operator.

In the last year, the Council has requested that 670 new residential units are "car free", which means that no parking is permitted either on site or on the street. In addition another 160 units are "car capped", which means parking is permitted on site, but not on the street.

The Camden Activity Zone site, which was launched last year as a one-stop online service to help young people find out about events and activities locally, has now attracted 12,255 visits, of which 6,849 were unique users.

Overall usage on the Council's website rose by 27% over the year, with use of electronic forms up by 27% Over 200 different e-forms can now be lodged on the website, and the Council gets about 9,500 e-forms a month now. None of this means we shouldn't still provide other means of accessing services, but this efficiency can help improve both customer service and cost.