Dear Editor,
Labour run Cheshire East plans to increase parking charges in Crewe by a whopping 10%.
Instead of £1.20 for two hours it will be £1.32. Crewe is the biggest but the most economically and socially deprived town in Cheshire East.
Despite that, Crewe residents have always paid the highest parking fees in Cheshire East.
And to make matters even worse, in NINE other towns in the Borough, (Sandbach, Alsager, Middlewich, Handforth, Prestbury, Poynton, Bollington, Disley and Holmes Chapel) motorists pay NOTHING to park, and NEVER have.
In the last 10 years, Crewe’s motorists have paid a massive £8 MILLION in car parking fees whilst NINE other towns in Cheshire East have not paid a penny.
Now to add insult to injury Labour run Cheshire East want to hike the parking charges yet again, by a huge 10%.
This absolute scandal has gone on for 14 years and needs to brought to an end immediately.
Crewe’s Labour councillors have done nothing to reduce car parking charges in the town, even though Labour have led the council since 2019.
In fact Labour has been as bad as the Tories for putting up car park charges in Crewe every year.
Crewe town centre has been in a sad spiral of decline for many years and these latest increases will further accelerate the sorry, decreasing appeal of the town centre.
‘Putting Crewe First’ says that Crewe’s car parks should be transferred to Crewe Town Council.
Then the Town Council could decide to scrap parking charges and then Crewe could compete on a level playing field with the other towns in Cheshire East.
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Yours faithfully,
Cllr Brian Silvester
Candidate
Crewe North
Putting Crewe First
Very interesting letter from a councillor who was responsible for putting up car park fees whilst in office as a Tory know leader of of a right wing racist fringe group
To put his rant into perspective
Never made any attempt as leader of Cheshire east to scrap them
What we pay is a pittance for safe off road parking compared with Trafford Cheshire East and Stoke on Trent council
I agree with labour that all towns should pay and not just the few who have historically paid for over fifty years
Yet this was blocked by the tories which the letter writer was a member until
Had to leave in disgrace aca slum landlord
Thus
So why would the council thst introduced them scrap them ????
What is the point in swapping responsibility apart from more red tape
At end of day you can always risk park your car in the many streets available if don’t want to pay for safe parking
I wouldn’t pay 50p to park. Have you seen the building site? And you want more to park there?
Oh let’s build a new cinema in the town because we already have one that nobody uses!
Personally, I nip in to town for half an hour on a Sunday when it’s free to park.
Surely there are more councillors in areas that charge for parking in CEC than in areas that don’t? (Does anyone know?) So if they could all put party politics aside and vote on behalf of their own electorate – as independents are supposed to do anyway – then a motion to change/equalise charges could be passed.
Otherwise, yes let’s ALL refuse to pay any increase, because that’s our only option.
I believe I read its because councilors of other areas will not vote to allow parking charges in their areas (because why would they?) or to drop the prices in those areas that pay, so everyones hands are tied.
The answer seems to be to leave Cheshire East…
The cost goes onto my council tax and I don’t drive, thanks for the wonderful idea I must subsidize Brian’s parking because he doesn’t walk,cycle or use public transport!
For once, a valid letter and argument from Mr Silvester.
What if everybody in Crewe and Nantwich stopped paying for parking on Cheshire East car parks until the fairness was levelled across all boroughs in Cheshire East. Would be interesting to hear from somebody with a legal background if it is reasonable that Cheshire East can charge in one area and not another and would the general public have a moral right to refuse to pay for parking until everywhere was under CEC jurisdiction was treated fairly.
I know it’s a stupid, ridiculous statement, and there is a greater chance of seeing Boris Johnson run through the streets naked, but would Cheshire East like to comment on why they charge for parking in some areas and not others?
Let’s make a stand against Cheshire East, if everyone stopped paying to park then the inept CEC councillors might, just might start to wake up!