Length of stay reduced to help retailers

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A 4-hour limit has been put in place in the South Street Car Park, as part of a new parking policy being introduced across Cheshire East, to prevent all day parking.

However, the Parish Council has requested that this is reduced further to limit the maximum stay to three hours. It was previously ten hours, as the sign still says but the ticket machine has been altered to only accept payment for up to four hours.

Councillor Craig Browne explained "The Parking Review recently carried out by Alderley Edge Parish Council found that at South Street all of the available spaces are regularly taken before 9am, with an average of just five spaces changing hands between 9am and 12-noon. This is unsurprising, given that under the previous regime it was possible to park all day for just £2.90."

He added "The Parish Council are of the view that the South Street Car Park should support retail businesses, by focusing more on short-stay parking for shoppers. I therefore asked the Portfolio Holder for an amendment to CEC-wide policy, which will mean that there is a maximum stay of 3 hours and no return within 2 hours. The amendment was accepted and will go to public consultation shortly."

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Here's what readers have had to say so far. Why not add your thoughts below.

Elaine Napier
Wednesday 28th October 2015 at 1:57 pm
A word in support of the people who live in the cottages between the Yard and the position of your photographer. Mostly, they can't find a space in the car park or in the spaces directly outside their homes. They have been issued with hundreds of parking tickets over the years and, indeed, last week they were on the receiving end of his and hers parking tickets before breakfast. Is there any compensatory measure available to them? Resident's permit? Council tax reduction? Sympathy even? No, sadly not. So my friends, with their two young children, struggle on in the face of the nightmare that is parking in Alderley Edge.
Charlie Gaughan
Thursday 29th October 2015 at 11:32 am
Maybe our parish council could explain where the people who work in the vilage on minimum wage can park
Ricky Lee
Saturday 31st October 2015 at 2:56 pm
New policy would move all workers in the village park outside people's home.

Our village roads are already blocked with day parking. It is getting to be extremely dangerous for school kids and drivers to see the roads and traffic.

Certain road are blocked from ambulance and fire engine.

Lack of solution + stupid ideas = accident.

Stop moving the problem. Please solve it properly.
Arthur Abercromby
Tuesday 3rd November 2015 at 2:00 pm
The current parking provisions in Alderley Edge are , and have been for some considerable time , inadequate. Tinkering will not solve the problem but will increase the widespread frustration of local residents.

The solution lies with the local authority and it demands investment in increased provision.
Bob Bracegirdle
Tuesday 3rd November 2015 at 3:30 pm
How I remember it 60 years ago. North Western bus to Manchester every ten minutes. No cars. Lots of room to walk around and shop. What have we done to ourselves?
Duncan Herald
Tuesday 3rd November 2015 at 3:52 pm
Hi Elaine,


go for Residents Permits; it has been granted in various roads in the village. Don't take no for an answer from C.E.
Ask your borough councillor to help you? That's what councillors are for ! That's why you vote them in ?
Karrie Chapman
Tuesday 3rd November 2015 at 8:22 pm
Please could the parish Council show me where myself and my staff can park all day please??
Duncan Herald
Tuesday 3rd November 2015 at 10:07 pm
Hi Karrie,

the Parish Council is supposedly giving the results of its Parking Survey sometime soon; hopefully to include suggested way/s to improve the problem.
I hope that they come to the same conclusion as did the previous Parish Council i.e. that the main answer is to build a large car park (circa 125-150 spaces).
You may care to ask the parish Council to discuss their suggestions with you? Or if you have viable suggestions, perhaps you might put them forward to either/both the Parish Council and Cheshire East Council?
Mark Pitts
Wednesday 4th November 2015 at 1:54 pm
There is some very flawed logic in the above quote from Councillor Browne.

Surely the fact that the car park was full indicates the need for *more* all-day commuter parking, not less?

How many retailers have asked the council for less all-day parking?

By my personal reckoning there are now around 120 fewer spaces in the village where it is possible to park all day than there were 18 months ago. This is of course just pushing the parking problem further into the residential areas.

I am gradually beginning to believe the conspiracy theories that all the recent changes are deliberately designed to exasperate residents and commuters alike until the majority opinion is to build a car park on the playing fields.
Mark Pitts
Wednesday 4th November 2015 at 2:36 pm
It's probably also worth pointing out that the last "Alderley Edge Town Centre Parking Review Report and Recommendations" stated:

South Street car park: this currently allows all day parking although located
centrally and hence is crucial to customer (shorter stay) parking capacity. This
should remain the case until other long stay parking is made available (see
above) and is taken up, at which point South St occupancy should be reviewed.

It seems this recommendation has been ignored.
Mike Norbury
Friday 6th November 2015 at 12:51 pm
commuter parking for Manchester is something that appears to be affecting our village along with Chelford Wilmslow and Handforth park up get the train in pick your car up at the end of the day no fee for parking and not a care about the effect your hogging of the free parking has . get rid off commuters snarling up the free/ relatively cheap parking and business staff working IN the village would have ample spaces to park all day . do a count of contractors vans and vehicles too that's a mind boggling amount of extra parking used up too. Also school staff parking up instead on school premises?
Vin Sumner
Monday 9th November 2015 at 10:02 pm
Most attracted to Bobs comment ; find a way to reduce cars .. They are on the way out anyway
Duncan Herald
Tuesday 10th November 2015 at 2:48 pm
Hi Mark,

a car park yes. On the playing field no; its the only playing field we have?

Build the car park on Heyes Lane allotments. There are already other allotment sites in the village and the large tract of land (ex-St. Hilary's field) has been offered as an alternative allotment site; it is much larger a plot that Heyes Lane.

The result? More allotments than ever and a 125-150 car space next to the Festival Hall/Medical Centre.

Seemples ?

By the way, before the 'usual suspects' attack; I don't like having a car park, but if there's no alternative? Can anyone put forward an alternative viable plan to take circa150 cars off the roads?
Stewart Dyer
Tuesday 10th November 2015 at 5:09 pm
I notice that Ryleys Lane now has cars parked on both sides of the road, including many on the pavements, all the way from Eaton Drive to the park entrance. No longer just at school hours, but most of the day, they seem to be a mixture of all day parkers, rail and airport commuters, and contractors. Parked on corners, blocking lines of sight, and restricting pedestrian routes along the pavements, they are a significant hazard to all road users.
Vehicles are trying to thread their way past these inconsiderate morons, and posing a danger to pedestrians forced onto the road by them, and to oncoming cars.