Reading East MP has gone into battle with the council for a local restaurateur with parking problems. Rob Wilson has written to Reading Borough Council on behalf of restaurant proprietor Jamshed Miah to ask council to help look for a solution to the parking problems being encountered by Barts Grill & Restaurant. But the council says it has offered to talk to Mr Miah and he has failed to take up the offer.
Under its previous ownership, the East Reading steak-house - at the corner of Wokingham Road and St Bartholomew’s Road – directed its customers to free parking inside Palmer Park. In 2011, Jamshed Miah - who has for 30 years run an award-winning chain of Indian restaurants in Reading – bought the restaurant which traded as Colley’s Supper Rooms.
As major refurbishment work was nearing completion, he discovered that RBC had decided to modify the small car park opposite the premises, limiting the spaces to use by blue badge holders only and blocking off the driveway lined by parking spaces leading from the parking area to the lodge in Palmer Park.
Realising the lack of parking could prove detrimental his business, Mr Miah contacted RBC seeking a solution that would enable the car park alongside the children’s playground in Palmer Park to be re-opened to customers during the evening.
This suggestion was turned down by the council.
