by Jonathan White
Organisers say the future of Audlem’s annual Party on the Park and Festival of Transport are in peril if proposed car parking charges go ahead.
Cheshire East Council are proposing car park charges to the Cheshire Street Public Car Park in Audlem.
Four free car parking days are being offered in Nantwich and other towns in a bid to boost retailers emerging from the pandemic.
A previous parking incentive scheme is due to expire on August 31 2022.
Council bosses have agreed to offer Nantwich four FREE car parking days in the run up to Christmas.
The scheme is designed to boost the town’s economy in the festive season as local traders recover from the pandemic.
By Belinda Ryan, local democracy reporter
Car parking charges look set to be introduced in Middlewich, Sandbach, Alsager and other Cheshire East towns which are free at the moment.
Sunday charging is also on the cards, with Cheshire East planning to introduce a flat £1 rate for stays longer than an hour across all council-owned paying car parks in the borough on Sundays and Bank Holidays.
Dear Editor,
Looking forward to the Highways and Transport Committee meeting due to be held on 21st September I wonder if the already delayed car parking strategy will make it onto the agenda.
If so, I wonder what it will seek to impose on us?
By Belinda Ryan, local democracy reporter
Car parking income in Cheshire East was down by more than £3 million last year compared to the previous year because of the pandemic.
Cheshire East suspended parking charges between March 27 and June 15 last year because of Covid-19.
Dear Editor
I am writing to you, to express my concerns about the way in which the Council has handled the closure of the unofficial St Anne’s Lane car park (in Nantwich)
Councillors across Crewe and Nantwich today urged residents to take part in a Cheshire East Council public consultation on plans to revamp car parking provision and parking charges.
Authority chiefs say results will influence plans on changes to parking provision and charges as well as “inform the future direction of how to improve transport, walking and cycling in our towns”.
Dear Editor,
Labour-run Cheshire East Council are going to allow just four free days of parking in Crewe and Nantwich a year.
This is just a sop to the mountain of criticism the Labour Council has received from ‘Putting Crewe First’ and many others, for re-introducing car park charges after the lockdown.
Cheshire East Council has offered Nantwich residents and visitors four days of free car parking later this year.
However, the offer is unlikely to appease many who are angry at parking charges being re-introduced by the authority after suspension of charges during lockdown.
Cheshire East residents who face higher car parking fees have forked out more than £360 for the Council Leader to park her car in the past three years.
The figures – obtained through Freedom of Information – are revealed on the day Leader Cllr Rachel Bailey and her Conservative colleagues voted to increase car parking charges across the borough.
Almost 300 responses were made to Cheshire East Council’s public consultation over plans to increase car parking charges in the borough.
Under the plans, hourly parking rates could be increased by 10p on council-owned car parks, and residential parking permits will also go up.
Nantwich Town councillors have vowed to fight Cheshire East Council’s plans to increase car park charges in the town.
They say that Nantwich – and neighbouring Crewe – are being treated unfairly with some of the highest parking charges in the borough.
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