PCSOs tackle illegal parking

by Lisa Reeves

Tuesday 19^th March 2013

Tue 19^th Mar 2013

PCSOs have been to helping to tackle illegal parking in areas of Wilmslow.

Two days of PCSO time per month has been allocated to the three month trial project, which has focussed on six particular areas of the town.

The areas highlighted are: Hawthorn Lane and Grove Street, Green Lane and Alderley Road, Church Street, Chapel Lane and Nursery Lane, Church Road in Handforth, Beech Grove and Beech Lane.

PCSOs have been spending an hour at a time in each of these areas looking at the particular issues and noting down the date, times, number of advisory notices issued and the number of penalty notices.

Sgt Andy Miller shared some interim figures with Wilmslow Town Council this week regarding the number of warnings and tickets issued in each area.

Hawthorn Lane and Grove Street - 19 warnings and 2 Fixed Penalty Notices.
Green Lane and Alderley Road - 13 warnings and 1 Fixed Penalty Notice.
Chapel Lane, Buckinghham Road and Nursery Lane - 7 warnings and 1 Fixed Penalty Notice.
Church Street - 18 warnings and 2 Fixed Penalty Notices.
Church Road, Handforth - 7 warnings and 19 Fixed Penalty Notices.
Beech Grove and Beech Lane - 16 warnings and 6 Fixed Penalty Notices.

Sgt Andy Miller explained "Tickets have generally been issued to repeat offenders, those people who have been warned. Discretion is the issue here though and if someone is committing an offence then they get a ticket straight away."

There are two weeks left of this initiative as it finishes at the end of March. Following the trial period Wilmslow Town Council will revisit the possible funding of additional hours for existing PCSO's.

Tags:: Parking, Parking Tickets, PCSO

Comments

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Trevor Lambert

Tuesday 19^th March 2013 at 3:40 pm

Most frustrating is the illegal parking on the zig-zag approaches to pedestrian crossings in Hawthorn Lane and Church Street (see photo above). I rarely have seen anyone ticketed

Tony Hughes

Tuesday 19^th March 2013 at 11:12 pm

Today I drove past the car pictured above. If the driver is reading this, how dare you be so arrogant that you think you are above the law. If this is how you treat our town, please feel free to get in your Mercedes, drive a long, long way and don't come back.

Mike Dixon

Wednesday 20^th March 2013 at 7:33 pm

So will the public now dislike PCSO'S as much as Traffic Wardens? Their role is to link in with the community and assist the public with problems alongside the Police. Yes I hear you say, parking is a problem, but let the council employ a dedicated Traffic Warden to do this job.
Also as a Handforth resident, I was upset to see the number of tickets issued in Handforth as opposed to all the advice and actual tickets issued in Wilmslow.
Out of interest, does anyone see a PCSO out on foot or even a bike as they all started out with, or do they just zoom past in cars?

Ian Clarke

Sunday 24^th March 2013 at 7:27 pm

Why only in the town centre? Try walking along cumber lane gravel lane you spend more time walking in the road than on the pavement. I approached a traffic warden in sainsbury' s car park about the illegal parking at side of hoopers and he told me not his job !!
Just think if all these people were fined for illegal parking then our council tax would not increase and our roads would be pot hole free. .