A scheme designed to stop cars from parking on both sides of a section of Redesmere Drive, where drivers received £30 parking fines for causing an obstruction on Friday, 31st March, is scheduled to be introduced later this year.
Cheshire East Highways have approved the proposal to install lines down one side of Redesmere Drive, from Ryleys Lane to Windermere Drive, prohibiting vehicles from parking there at any time.
The cost of doing this is about £2000 which will be funded from S106 money which came from the development at 17-23 London Road, where Tesco Express is located.
Councillor Craig Browne, who has been working on the scheme, said "Everything has to be done in a strict order, in line with the legal agreement. This means starting with the one-way system for South Street and West Stree, then the one-way system for Chorley Hall Lane.
"Both of these other two projects have to be consulted on first and both of them also require a highways assessment. The first part of the assessment for Chorley Hall Lane took place last week, but the results will not be available for another week or so."
Once these two projects, which are being funded by the same S106 agreement, are approved then there will be a formal consultation on the proposal for Redesmere Drive.
Councillor Browne added "The S106 agreement makes reference to improving pedestrian access around the village and CEC have agreed to include Redesmere Drive in the scheme because of the way cars currently park there and the obstruction that they regularly cause to the footpath. The two schemes are also linked because, in order to restrict parking in one location we now have to show that we are providing extra parking elsewhere."
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Extending it opposite the entrance to Windermere is overkill. It isn't needed and that'll be another 3 parking spaces lost !
The entrance to Windermere Drive forms a junction with Redesmere Drive. As the Highway Code (Rule 243) states, it is an offence to park opposite a junction (except within a marked parking bay), so there will be no loss of parking, just reinforcement/greater awareness of an existing restriction.
Kind regards,
Craig
thank you for your courteous and prompt reply.
Is this Highway Code v. Common Sense ? The 3 cars parked there have not (I think) discommoded anyone; but the 3 spaces are now gone.
If this aspect of the Highway Code were to be applied throughout Alderley Edge, how many parking spaces would be lost I wonder.
Can yoe tell me, does the 'rule' apply in every case or is there a distance measurement involved?
Yes its needed! That part of Redesmere Drive is a regular parking place for people who dont know how to park their car within a reasonable distance to the kerb, resulting in them sticking out in the road almost causing an obstruction.
Common sense suggests that the "distance" would be the dotted line markings which indicate the entrance.
Thank you, I always aim to be courteous.
The Highway Code is not really something that either of us can have much influence over, it is for us to abide by and the police to interpret and enforce as they see fit (or more realistically, as their resources allow).
Kind regards,
Craig