village car parking

Twice a week in the mornings I work asa volunteer in a charity shop ,between weinholts and Bubble room.Re car parking I frequently see cars arrive and the owners vanish for all morning in some cases.Today Thurs a mini parked at 9 10 am and was still there at 1 30 pm when I left.This is not helping the local shops whose patrons cannot find places to park.The short restricted parking strip outside Tescos is frequently full of cars,during the restricted loading times,again these cars are there for some time.In the main car park I see cars driving in and the owners getting out going for coffee at supermarket sitting outside drinking it then wandering off into the village Without paying parking charges.
Isnt it about time we had a permanent traffic warden ?

the parking on the hill when approaching alderley village is getting out of hand.not only do you have to get on to the wrong side of the road when coming down the hill in to alderley.people are now parking on the left hand side of the hill.making driving difficult.i have written to the police making a complaint.

There may be a slight increase in parking; there is a planning application before C.E.C. (14/2857M) to build a ‘single car parking deck providing upper and lower ground parking spaces’ at Queen’s Court.
I think that’s the car park behind Panacea?

Duncan, Orbit Developments have had planning permission to build a car park deck to the rear of Queen’s Court for 25 years.

This application is to renew that permission (11/1129M) which was originally approved in Jun 1989. 

It has been renewed a number of times since then to keep the option open for them, should the need to provide extra parking arise.

So it will be interesting to see if they feel there is now a need and they go ahead with the plans.

Interesting.  Orbit?  Also Jones?  This smacks of corporate strategy.  If Orbit continue to choose not to build much needed additional public (or even private) parking where they have acquired permission, this only increases pressure on the village to find more space.  Like… oh perhaps the Hayes Lane allotments, for example?  And then, when that space is not used for much needed parking (due to its location), well, hey presto, prime housing development! No?

If the proposed Heyes Lane car park is under used it will not be due to the location but to having to pay to park. It is no further away from shops, offices etc.. than the residential streets, grass verges etc.. which are used at the moment making our village look so messy in areas. The same problem was addressed in Wilmslow by introducing short stay parking bays in residential streets and long stay parking at a reasonable rate on the car parks. Could we not do the same?

Hi Dina,
if the practice of short stay parking is introduced, might not that lead to more streets applying for residents only parking? and thus an overall loss of yet more parking spaces?
As far as I am aware, there is not as yet any proposed parking charge model for a car park on Heyes Lane; perhaps now is the time to make the views of residents known i.e. before any pricing plan gets established?
With the constant addition, by CE£C, of more yellow lines then there may be such a shortage of parking on verges etc. that a car park on Heyes Lane will be used.
p.s. are people aware that verges are owned by CEC and not usually by the occupants of the houses fronted by the verges?

I was visited last night by a chap looking for me to sign a petition against parking at Heyes Lane.  Not only did he break my gates by forcing them open !! and now I have an engineer fixing them at £500/£600!  but I also informed him that my road was a car park!!, therefore a car park or some alternative was required urgently to which he informed me “what about green space” to which my comment is - we do not have the luxury of this.  I have lived here for over 20 years and Alderley has changed dramatically.  We have to accept and get up to date - the allotments are being moved - I do not have that luxury!!

It seems now legally acceptable for cars to park on both sides of Congleton road forcing drivers to travel up or down that road blindly in the middle straddling both sides of centre lines.Traffic coming into Alderley do so unable to see other side of brow of hill,same for people travelling south .Why???I have seen police cars not in emergency mode driving both ways yet no one seems bothered .

Jane, it saddens me that you consider it more important that cars don’t park on your residential road (I presume legally?), than preserving precious green space in our village.  It appears from your post that you consider that green space a ‘luxury’.  Some might consider gates that cost £500-600 to repair more of a luxury.  I’m sure the ‘chap’ with the petition did not intend to break the gates.  Personally, I am grateful to him for volunteering his time to try to preserve something that has been here in the village for a lot longer than the 20 years you have been here.  And I hope will be here for a long time after both of us have gone.

In response to Claire Macleod’s comment.  Maybe you would like to come to my house every morning and put a cone outside so I can make the turn out of my gate into what is a cobbled narrow lane. The parking is, in fact, not legal but as the gentlemen refers to the parking on Congleton Road there is no traffic enforcement despite may pleas by all the residents.  Also the elderly by me cannot walk on the pavements due to the fact there is no room nor take any form of wheelchair out!  It is also extremely dangerous for the children and I hope to goodness that a child does not get run over for the sake of the allotments being moved.  My gates would fade into insignificance wouldn’t they.  Or do you not agree!

There have been two disabled parking spaces outside the Doctor’s surgery on George Street for as long as I can remember.  That seems fair because there are a few disabled people who live on George Street. In addition, many other disabled people visit the surgery throughout the day.

I notice that Cheshire East Council has recently changed the parking rules for these two spaces.  They are now displayed as available for disabled parking only for Mon - Fri, 9.00 - 5.00, presumably based on the idea that the spaces are only required for disabled visitors to the surgery, and they will therefore be empty for evenings and weekends.

That is not true, of course, since the whole of George Street is crammed with people visiting bars and restaurants every evening and weekend. Tough luck if you happen to be both disabled and a resident who arrives home after 5pm.

Jane Hallam, with all due respect, if the cars are parking illegally (and for free) on your road now due to lack of traffic enforcement, what makes you believe that turning the allotments into a paying car park would change that?  I’m afraid those people will continue to park for free and illegally and the newly created car park will remain empty or under-used.  So no, I do not agree.

I have spoken to the people parking personally and they all work in the village.  They are in agreement that they need parking as a matter of urgency.  They literally do not have anywhere to park as their offices currently do not have adequate parking facilities.  This, of course is another argument - too many offices, schools etc., and not enough parking. However, we need action to change the appalling state of the side roads in the village.

I understand that parking outside residential properties are a nightmare for residents but don’t forget that those of us that work in offices in the village contribute to the local economy during the week.

If we all worked together and those residents that drive to work could offer their space between 8.30 to 5.30 Monday to Friday for a nominal fee of, say £5 per week then wouldn’t that help those that have no alternative but to block pavements in dire need to park or lose their precious job?

Regardless of finding suitable parking close to places of work,  priority should be given to both walkers sometimes with prams and families often having to walk round cars parked illegaly and cars forced to travel on wrong side of road in many cases round bends .
What on earth makes people believe they can park their cars ANYWHERE?

Today (Tuesday) I needed to drive down Ryleys Lane. There were cars parked on both sides of the road. There were cars sort-of log-jammed. How long one wonders before the whole village becomes one almighty log-jam?

The problem on Ryles Lane will not be solved by a car park on Heyes Lane allotments. We are all aware of the problems with the schools at Drop off and pick up time.

Duncan - not only both sides of the road. Every morning I am confronted by vehicles (mostly large 4x4s of course) parked fully on the pavement, preventing anyone walking there. Selfish and ignorant does not even begin to describe these morons!
This morning there was even one parked across my driveway, restricting access, and it was there for at least 15 minutes. I took a photograph of the parking position and the number plate.

Look what the Ryleys lot have done to the grass verge in front of Ryleys Farm, I don’t think we will see the spring flowers next year.

Hi Fiona,
it wasn’t even in school times, it was in the late a.m.
Might someone tell the person who now parks on the ‘clear’ side of Ryleys Lane that whilst it is legal so to do, it don’t do much for communal blood pressure!
Fingers crossed that the proposed car park on Heyes Lane will be jammed every day!
How much might parking on the proposed car park cost? Councillor Jones (Leader of CEC) has announced that in future, car parking should be cost neutral; will that help?

Duncan. I remember years ago hearing a Mother doing the school drop off at the Ryleys moaning that if she had to park much further away from the school she would book a taxi from her car!!! Yes ok tongue in cheek but she was parked near Redesmere Drive.

Fiona is correct. No parent will ever park on a car park on Heyes Lane to drop off their child/children at school.

I would like to make a plea for drivers to access the South Street Car park from South Street and not enter from the exit. Twice recently I have been confronted by abusive drivers who have caused me to take evasive action to avoid an accident. They are so keen to take my parking space arrogance replaces manners.
I for one am sick and tired of these rude and ignorant people.
All we need is some good old fashioned courtesy instead of push and shove.

Hi Sarah,
apology for not replying sooner: week-end guests such that my fingers were less than steady!
You may well be correct about parents not using Heyes Lane to drop off/pick up children BUT the early and late school runs, whilst often annoying, are surely not a major contributor to the village parking problems?
My own thoughts are that businesses will use the new car park and (so some shoppers tell me) some shoppers will be willing to park approx. 300 yards away and stroll into the village and that people working in the village will use the new car park (they tell me they will, as long as the cost is not extortionate!).
Might you agree?

No I don’t agree but I sincerely hope I will be proved wrong. It would be wonderful if workers were able to park in a long stay cheapish car park on Heyes Lane freeing up other spaces for shoppers but 1 hours parking along the shops means you are forever clock watching.

I forsee any possible car park on Heyes Lane becoming a continuation of the homes currently on the site of the old pub. I don’t think shoppers or school drop off parents will ever use that car park.People are lazy.

Hi Sarah,

I am told that sometime soon, the South St. car park will become a 2-hour place, rather than an unlimited place. So helpful to shoppers/traders?