Cheshire East Council is in the process of installing parking meters at Ryleys Lane car park, with the new regime due to go live next month.
Councillor Craig Browne said "Unfortunately, the continuation of free parking at this location has become unsustainable, as the council grapples to address a £20m budget deficit in Children's Services & Adult Social Care.
"Thankfully, as part of the new regime, I have been able to secure a change whereby eight of the existing bays (those immediately adjacent to the playing fields) will become short-stay only with a maximum waiting time of two hours.
He added "Over the last couple of years, a number of residents have contacted me to express their disappointment that the car park is regularly filled with commuter vehicles from 8am every day, leaving little or no space for short-stay visitors to the playing fields or for those dropping off or picking up children at our local schools. These changes should help to address those concerns."
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Displacing cars from a settled parking arrangement invariably causes more problems than it solves. This was a lesson hard learned when parking was decriminalised many years ago and we then spent years creating residents' parking spaces on a number of the streets in the village to solve the problems that had been created.
Moving commuter cars off the park car park will see them taking up the nearby, free, on street spaces.
This will cause complaints from the residents outside whose houses they are parked and off we will go again.
I predict that the Park Car Park will now be empty much of the time and will raise very little revenue - there is too much free on street parking within easy walking distance.
The Lakes estate/Eaton Drive/Wilton Crescent will simply become the car park.