The loss of the old gasworks parking site in Nantwich will add to a “rising tide” of traffic problems, say concerned Civic Society members.
Development of the St Anne’s Lane site (pictured) will see the town lose 200 ‘free’ parking spaces each day.
Residents on a narrow Nantwich street fed-up with cars driving and parking illegally on footpaths, are to meet with highways bosses.
Families on South Crofts have flooded Cheshire East with complaints, saying shoppers are parking there and forcing other motorists to drive on pavements.
Parents parking in and around Wistaston’s Berkeley Academy will have a new drop-off point for their children to help resolve parking problems.
The primary school has recently received planning approval from Cheshire East Council to replace its existing buildings.
All pensioners aged 85 or over in Nantwich could automatically be enrolled on the Blue Badge disabled persons’ parking scheme.
The new policy, revealed by Cheshire East Council, is being considered as they lobby ministers to amend current legislation.
Nantwich Pool users will soon benefit from free parking on Snow Hill car park.
Everybody Sport & Recreation, the trust which runs the pool, has agreed to the deal after it emerged other towns in Cheshire East already offered free parking for leisure users.
A derelict gasworks in Nantwich used as a town car park will be built on after ministers waived a £400,000 bill owed by Cheshire East Council.
The St Anne’s Lane Gasworks, off Welsh Row, has stood derelict for a quarter of a century, and used by many residents and local employees as a car park.
A town councillor has vowed to campaign for more car parking spaces in Nantwich town centre.
Cllr David Marren believes the town suffers from a lack of spaces, and says land behind Nantwich Pool has potential to be a new car park.
Nantwich Town Council’s pilot scheme for tackling on-street parking problems is having an impact, councillors claim.
They say the scheme, now in its fifth week, is resulting in fewer contraventions as people become more aware of where parking is illegal.
Nantwich councillors are to run a ground-breaking scheme to crackdown on nuisance parking in the town.
The town council has signed up to a pilot scheme after receiving scores of complaints about on-street parking.
Parking charges on council-run car parks in Nantwich will be scrapped on three Saturdays before Christmas.
The move is designed to boost trade in Nantwich during the peak festive shopping period.
Nantwich families will be all shook up this month when Elvis himself switches on the town’s Christmas Lights.
Paul Larcombe, one of the world’s top Elvis impersonators, will be the guest of honour at the Nantwich town Christmas Lights switch-on on November 22.
Buses are bypassing a Nantwich village because street parking means they can’t through, it has emerged.
Now residents and councillors in Willaston are calling for a clampdown on motorists who leave their cars double parked.
Highways chiefs have vowed to fix a parking problem in Nantwich which has turned a village street into a “ghastly mess”. Residents living on Circle Avenue in Willaston say motorists parking on grass verges have caused an eyesore.
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