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Tatton parking plans coming to Area Committee
by Lib Dem team on 6 December, 2019
Proposals for new parking restrictions around the former Tatton cinema will come to Cheadle Area Committee on Tuesday 10 December 2019 for discussion.
The council prefers a one hour parking limit in front of the new Co-op but a shorter 30 minute limit is also an option, to better keep cars moving.
Full details here.
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Just an aside, Iain – but has the roadway to the right of the Tatton always been called Matinee Road, or is this a new naming?
It’s new – I believe Gatley Primary had a competition to come up with the new name.
Thanks, Iain. Great that the name’s come from the youngsters.
Questions: 1: how many flat units are there? 2: how many on site parking spaces are three for the flats and their visitors?
Hi Robert, the council’s planning website seems to be down right now so I can’t give you the exact answers. If you want to check when it’s up, you can go to http://planning.stockport.gov.uk/PlanningData-live/ and search for planning application 58809.
I am sure parking restrictions are necessary but as is the case with Cheadle High Street and Manchester Road if the parking attendants fail to deal with motorists that flout the parking restrictions then there is little point spending time, effort and money installing more coloured lines and signage.
Very true Peter. We had a traffic warden in the village centre yesterday (Saturday) and we will need to ensure that issues are enforced when they occur.
Is there enough room to have the parking against the nearside pavement ?
If there is it would keep offside pavement simple and square better for the footfall around the bus stop
Hi Hasan, are you asking for the Co-op parking to be against the store rather than away from it?
Yes have the parking up against the store pavement
How about some bollards on the corner of Gatley Road and Old Hall Road, Horse and Farrier side, to prevent motorists mounting the footpath at busy periods.
It will also stop Open Reach parking on the footpath at this location, blocking it, whilst they’re servicing the green box on this corner.
Hi Keith, if that proves to be necessary then yes, we will do that. However, the reason that motorists mount the pavement is because the road is so narrow at that point. By putting down double yellow lines outside the restaurant we hope to solve that problem and stop people mounting the pavement.
In your plan you propose to remove existing parking on Old Hall Road and replace it with exclusive Disability Parking, what your rational. If you go ahead with this plan you will cause problems for doctors surgery and Dispensing Chemist, it looks like another ill-conceived plan.
Hi Roy, that isn’t the plan. The only parking being removed on Old Hall Road is outside the restaurant – to widen the road at the top. Everything else on Old Hall Road stays the same.
Hi Iain
If you look at the plan provided only Blue Badge holders can park under the New proposals, it is marked in Red and takes over existing general parking. If this is wrong then the Plan needs amending before approval.
I’ll double-check on Tuesday, but what the plan is intending to show is that the parking along Old Hall Road remains the same (the hatched lines) with the solid red box in front of the Co-op signifying a disabled parking space.
The footway at Rowlands chemists has a dropped kerb. Can parking be stopped there so that wheelchairs can get access to the chemists?
Not yet been decided, but work has already started. the bus stop has been positioned in the new location. The new plans reduce the bus stop island in size. If we want to encourage people to use public transport is this sensible? It was crazy when we lost the other bus shelter stop and these plans just reinforce my fears that Hayley will never get the extra bus routes it needs. We used to have 3 buses to Manchester, 1 to the airport, the 400 orbital bus that stopped in most of the town’s around greater Manchester, even a bus from Kingsway that stopped outside the doors to the Apollo for concerts. All now lost. All forcing people to use cars. The trains are unreliable, expensive and run by a firm that just wants to dish fines out and the park and ride for the team is totally full Mon to Fri by workers using it all day. Half the east didsbury park and ride should be short stay, upto 4 hours or so max.
Sorry, Hayley above should say gatley.
A sufficient number of parking spaces need to be removed from the top of Old Hall Rd to alleviate the pressures at the very narrow junction. It’s hard to see from the plan just how many spaces will be removed? On the length of parking 30 min will keep traffic moving, should allow plenty of time for shopping and stop further congestion in nearby residential streets.