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Parking outside school
by Lib Dem team on 3 September, 2019
The Council has issued advice on parking safely and legally outside school as the new school year gets underway.
“The Liberal Democrats have successfully campaigned for more parking enforcement in Stockport and we are very pleased to see the council issuing this advice,” said Cllr Keith Holloway. “Safety must always come first on our roads and around our schools.”
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I am SO glad my children have now left Cheadle Primary School. Such a stressful part of the morning with selfish drivers going down a dead end road, doing 3-point turns right outside the school gates, particularly when it was free to park in the car park right next door to the school during the school run hours. This situation will NOT be helped by the leaflet above that says it is OK to stop on double yellow lines if you are letting someone out of a car or if they are getting IN the car.
Parking in Cheadle and on the surrounding roads is a mess. Once you sort it out then I will consider voting for you again, until then, no chance
Hi Andrew – always happy to look at parking issues. What is your proposed solution?
Parking Resident and visitor parking permits for roads within 1km of Cheadle town centre. More car parks in Cheadle
Thanks Andrew – as you rightly imply, the immediate problem with having resident and visitor permits within 1km of Cheadle centre would mean a lot more people who work in Cheadle struggling to find somewhere to park, so we would need more car parks.
The challenge of course is where to put those car parks, and how to pay for them. I don’t think many people want a huge multi-storey car park in the middle of the village (even if someone came up with the £10m+ to fund it) so it means turning over more land into car parks and I’m not aware of anywhere that land could go.
Can you point me to any other similar places that have implemented this sort of scheme with visitors permits – we could see how other people have done it.
The council had the ideal opportunity to build a car park on the Travis Perkins land, but instead gave planning for houses.
The way the council are handling Cheadle Town centre, the problem with soon go away as less and less people are working in Cheadle or visiting for shopping as more and more businesses close. Two greengrocers and a decades old farm shop are victims over the past few months – a disgrace. You have no strategy and no idea in my option.
Hi Andrew – thanks for the suggestion. It’s an interesting issue so I’ll explain.
The Council didn’t have the opportunity to build a car park because the land was owned by Travis Perkins and they are allowed to decide who to sell it to who they want. The council doesn’t have the money to buy land at the sort of prices you can get for residential use.
We also need to take into account a few other factors:
– having more people living in the village centre means more people shopping and enjoying themselves in the village without driving cars in, helping the local economy
– we need more homes, especially specialist homes for older people, and I’d prefer to have them on brownfield sites than in the green belt
– I very much doubt the people living around Lime Grove want even more traffic on their small residential street from another car park
– as part of the planning permission we were able to secure space for a future tram/train stop at the back of the site
– if we build lots more car parks in the village, that bring more people driving in which clogs up the roads even more: more jams, more pollution. Instead we need to improve public transport, walking and cycling options to allow more people to get to Cheadle without making it a worse place to live.
So we do have a strategy and we do have many ideas. The strategy is around improving Cheadle by creating the transport options for people to get in and out of the village without needing ever-more car parks and without having our roads constantly jammed with cars. You might disagree with our strategy – that’s absolutely fair enough. I would disagree with your strategy of just building ever more car parks and giving more and more of our village over to cars.
The Highway Code clearly says in regard to yellow lines “You may stop to load or unload,… or while passengers board or alight.” So the leaflet is only reiterating what the law says.
So many contradictions.
I think that I am one of the few people who uses a bike or chooses to walk rather than use the car. If we had Parking Resident and visitor parking permits for roads within 1 km of Cheadle centre, then walking or cycling would be encouraged.
So why do the council sell annual car parking spaces to the people living around Lime Grove? Maybe you should have used this money to buy the Travis Perkins land.
As I said previously, Cheadle town centre is closing.