The reoccurring problem with parking on Cliff Road, which has been safety hazard to wheelchair and pushchair users for many years, resurfaced this weekend with the return of warmer weather.
PCSOs issued seven Fixed Penalty Notices to vehicles obstructing Cliff Road during the afternoon on Sunday, 5th May.
Additionally, they advised approximately a dozen drivers about their parking responsibilities.
Cheshire East Council parking enforcement officers later attended and issued tickets for further offences.
In the summer of 2021 Wilmslow Town Council installed floral planters on the pavement at the bottom of Cliff Road in an attempt to discourage parking on the pavement.
They decided to take action because, whilst this problem started sometime ago, the regularity of such obstructive parking increased during the past two summers.
However, the planters were subsequently removed and relocated due to repeated vandalism.
PCSO Morris said "Clearly the long-term solution for this problem is to prevent vehicles from accessing the pavement, which I am hopeful the local authority will take action on and work is ongoing to encourage this going forward."
On Sunday a vehicle was also issued a Fixed Penalty Notice (FPN) for obstructing the dropped kerb on Green Lane whilst another was given a FPN for obstructing the footpath on South Oak Lane.
Comments
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I know that a guy was putting cones out up the road last year and that seemed to help but I haven't seen him this year. Someone mentioned putting permanent barriers there, but I think there are restrictions on what can be used, which is just crazy as the cars are the problem so why can't we just move them!
Sorry, I know that's me being a little facetious. There's a lot of unused parking at Broadway Meadow - which I know is not as convenient for the Carrs. We need to balance provision versus cost and potential damage to the environment of the Carrs. Part of me thinks that however many parking spaces you provide, there will always be those selfish individuals who park where they want and inconvenience the rest of us.
All of your points are entirely valid (we know your suggestion to tarmac all of the Carrs was tongue in cheek but said to prove a point; as Joni Mitchell sang "they paved paradise and put up a parking lot).
We need to look after green spaces, and turning more of the Carrs into a car park extension will simply lose some of that green space to more parked cars. And the selfish so-and-sos who arrive after all the parking is full will continue to park illegally as they do now.
The answer is a firm clamp-down on the selfish idiots - towing away their cars to a distant police compound with great cost and massive inconvenience to retrieve them would do it.
And if they get towed a second time, it's off to the crusher with their cars.