Police in Wilmslow North are taking steps to tackle dangerous parking in the area during school rush hours.
A project called 'DIPZY' is being run out of Wilmslow Grange Primary School by local Police Community Support Officers Gareth Harding and Rebecca Woolley.
PCSO Gareth Harding of Wilmslow North Neighbourhood Policing Team said: "There have been ongoing problems with parking in the areas surrounding the school which need to be addressed.
"The project will look to target this by engaging directly with both the school and motorists."
'DIPZY' stands for 'Double yellow lines, ins-and-outs, pavements, zigzag lines and yellow lines' .
As part of the project, pupils at the school will be asked to design their own tickets for dangerously parked cars.
The tickets will then be placed on offending vehicles by the PCSOs and the school's road safety officers.
It is hoped that this approach will make motorists think twice before leaving their cars in dangerous positions in the future.
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All illegal parking is potentially hazardous to pedestrians, particularly the young, elderly, disabled, etc. It is pure laziness of drivers not to park responsibly.
I believe that the issue of unlawful and dangerous parking is going to be on the Agenda of the next Town Council meeting in 21st January. I also understand that Inspector Sue Mills from Wilmslow NPU will be in attendance to take questions from councillors.
http://www.cheshire.police.uk/my-neighbourhood/wilmslow/wilmslow-south/your-team.aspx
I expect Insp Sue Mills to promote sale of PCSO time to WTC @ x hrs/wk for issue of de-crim PCNs not crim FPNs.
As Steph suggests, mickey mouse dipsy tickets may act as a temp warning,easily ignored without cash penalty and totting points on driviing licence.
Also DIPSY tickets only app apply toi school locale not Waitrose or other residential environs.
If CEC extended it's CEO powers to isue PCNs for the full range of app contraventions, the cost to the C Taxpayer would be minima and no reason to employ PCSOs away from their normal duties
You are most welcome to come and view the grass verge outside our house and you will see that it isn't damaged in any way at all.
We are not irresponsible house owners neither are we contributing to any overspend by the council. In fact we have on occasions done their gardening jobs for them as they have presumably been too overstretched to attend to the maintenance of the verges.
We do not make a habit of parking on the verge. Unfortunately this rare occasion coincided with the newly appointed and overzealous CEO's pre Christmas head-hunting mission.
What a pity you didn't visit the area before you judged us so harshly!
BTW if you do decide to call round you are permitted to park your car on the grass verge in the evenings or on a Sunday.
I'm not sure how your argument stands up with that one!