Parking will be banned on four more residential streets, at particular times of the day, to stop all day parking by commuters.
From Monday, 9th February, vehicles will be prohibited from waiting or parking on sections of Thorngrove Road, Thorngrove Hill, Thorngrove Drive and Land Lane.
Parking will be banned on sections of the roads, on both sides, between the hours of 9.30am to 10.30am and 2pm to 3pm Monday to Friday (see map above).
Additionally, vehicles will be banned from waiting or parking on Land Lane from a point 50 metres south of its junction with Thorngrove Road for a distance of 52 metres, at all times.
Some local residents have been increasingly concerned about inconsiderate parking, making it difficult either to access or exit their driveways.
Residents Richard and Kathy Holman said "We are tired of being inconvenienced by inconsiderate parking and it's getting worse. There is the added danger that this can give access problems for the emergency services and the weekly refuse trucks. For some time now we have been campaigning for these restrictions and are immensely pleased that our wait is over."
Councillor Rod Menlove added "I am pleased that the residents are at last getting these parking restrictions that have overwhelming local support. Understandably, residents, and I am one, do not want our peaceful roads used as a public car park.
"Residents have always asked for restrictions where parking is a problem and we have always responded. The interests of council tax paying residents come before those of commuters.
"The answer is that the larger employers should accept their responsibilities and implement the Travel Plans that they are obliged to write. On site parking for office blocks built this century is inadequate due to Labour Government planning guidance.
"Short term, to those who say we need more commuter parking, I agree. Before the recession we had outline thoughts on decking for Broadway Meadow so we will re-examine this option. We are also unhappy with the low occupancy of the Spring Street car park and we will press for lower charges."
This Order follows a recent order which prohibited parking on a section of Daveylands and the entire length of both Vardon Drive and Dane Drive between the hours of 8.30am and 10.30am and 2pm and 3pm from Monday to Friday.
Comments
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I have been emailing Cheshire East highways repeatedly since the start of December asking for evidence that the restrictions have 'overwhelming support'. So far I have only received one reply stating that an informal consultation took place canvassing views in July of 2014 followed by the formal advertisement. They seem unwilling to give me the results of either though. I wonder why that is?
This never required total yellow line fever across the T/grove area... as discussed displacement is not the solution, it causes further problem's.....
The existing yellow lines and parking bays are similarly inefficient and now cause vehicles to met head on at the apex of a bend..( dangerous !) and there have been many near misses
There were no other options suggested, no less dramatic solutions were tabled. Permits and appropriate street signs being one.....This was RM's campaign to deal with an issue that affects his house more than others. I'm not drawing inference here but it does seem more than coincidental.The money would be better spent on improving the road surface and coming up with a more meaningful solution. This seems to be a significant misuse of taxpayers funds for what they are seeking to achieve if merely triggered by an informal consultation... but championed by who ?
I hope were not wasting tax payers money lyme green style again here. I await your deliberations on this subject
Interesting that Menlove is blaming current parking problems on the Labour Government; not in place since 2010.
Let's kick party-politics out of local government, like we kicked Menlove out of his recent attempt to be elected to WTC. Asleep at the wheel when in charge of what turned out to be a £2m scandal at Lyme Green; not exactly a steady hand at the wheel, eh Rod? Don't bother to reply; you never do.
It's about a metre high in the footway in an exposed location with a sharp information plate just at the level of children's faces.
I've reported it to Highways as URGENT and have only had an automatic receipt.
I'd post a photo but can't see how to do it here.
Refer http://bit.ly/1DxaPOz
Unbelievable that this fellow is still my "representative" on CEC.
He still has a pen in his hand, signing off yet more of our money: it is evidently part of an "ongoing revolution", according to Michael Jones. http://bit.ly/1KHQK8m
They have no additional legal force.
They merely indicate the presence of a dropped kerb for a driveway.
It is an offence (£70) to park where there is a dropped kerb but the CEC website says for residential drives they wait for a complaint from the affected resident before enforcing it.