Free parking for Christmas shoppers on Saturday

Too little to late

Better late than never. Blows my mind ….that walking is such hardship (hard to imagine us meeting our green credentials or living healthier lives). Further blows my mind that parking articles posted here, creates a lively array of responses. Why is it a hardship to pay £3 quid to park your £40k car during a £500 quid shopping splurge on mostly unnecessary nonsense (ex medicines / food). Have a great xmas all.

Assumptions Ryan. Not all are in £40K (rented) cars or buying £500 worth of tat. You may like to try walking a mile or two carrying enough food for a family for a couple of days. Two or three times a week come rain or shine.
Green credentials haha. You will own a spoon and be happy. An inaccurate quote from the potential one!!

Wilmslow has charged for parking for as long as I can remember and the car parks get used, the council gets moaned at for charging and told that people will stop coming into town, but the car parks still get used. The council says "we will give you a free day of parking, it's a nice thing to do" and still gets moaned at!
Who would be a councillor? I mean obviously there are loads of us around Wilmslow who could do a better job, but I don't recall seeing their names on the ballot paper last time!

@ Richard Mason missing the point Just up the road from Wilmslow are three out of town shopping parks where you can park for free The incompetent CEC do nothing for local businesses as side from one day of free parking, get a grip Maybe the cafe that offered free tea with your breakfast could still do so if trade was better instead people go to Costa, M&S Cafe or JL cafes no parking charge there or even one of the garden centres
Are you aware they are now introducing more street parking charges including medical centres and putting up the existing rates?

@ Gordon - my point was more that even when trying to do something nice, the council get moaned at. I absolutely accept that CEC are not perfect, there must be opporunity for improvement, but I'm not sure how we get it.
In terms of CEC doing nothing for local businesses, I'm not a business so don't have direct experience; but central government set the business rates and also dictate that around 70% of the rates from Wilmslow go out of area. I understand that CEC are trying to do something about that.
Car parking is a dilema - it costs to run and maintain a car park (or even street parking) and we know that the coffers are running dry; so where does the money come from? Plus we should be trying to reduce car usage - better for the environment and gets us more active - but lack of public transport and personal circumstances mean it's not always possible.
On a side note I saw a couple of weeks ago that there was a move to boycott M&S cafe due to them introducing some automated self-service tills. I guess that sometimes the commercial decisions mean that places have to weigh up the premesis costs (including free car parking), staff costs and technology - essentially whatever decision it will leave some people unhappy.