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Smart spot by resident helps the Lib Dems tackle Greenbank Road parking
by Lib Dem team on 24 April, 2015
Residents of Greenbank Road in Gatley (off Northenden Road, opposite Gatley Rec) have long complained about parking problems. Between residents and customers for the vets on the corner the road often gets jammed up.
A while back the Lib Dems had double yellow lines painted to stop people parking on the inside of the bend in the road, which has helped.
Now an eagle-eyed resident has spotted that the landlord of the flats at 10 Greenbank Road looks to be breaking a planning condition applied when the age restriction for the flats was removed in 2008.
The car park for 10 Greenbank Road is now gated, in breach of planning conditions
1. The existing car parking area provided to the rear of the building shall remain free from obstruction and shall be available at all times as a communal parking area with each space available to the residents of all flats within the building or their visitors. Reason In view of the more intensive use of the site arising from the removal of the age limit for occupation of the flats and to reduce congestion and inconvenience from excessive on-street parking by residents and visitors of the flats in accordance with Policies CDH1.1 and TD1.4 of the Stockport Unitary Development Plan Review and the DCLG/DoT Manual for Streets (2007).
The resident contacted the Lib Dem team and we checked it out. We thought she was absolutely right, so we got in touch with the council and asked them to investigate. The Council’s Planning Enforcement people took just a few days to check it out and agree that the condition should still be enforced: even though seven years have passed the issue still remains.
The next step is for the Council to track down the landlord and get the gates removed, with legal action if needed.
5 Comments
Can’t say that I fully understand what is going on here, but if this is private land (must be because it talks of the landlord), then why should parking not be protected for use by legitimate users only. The gates were presumably placed because of a flagrant misuse of the parking facility, which I am pretty confident in presuming that the council did very little to help. But now, the council want to get involved to flex their ‘Big Brother’ muscles. What good will this do apart from exasperate the residents. You call this a “smart spot”, well I disagree.
Hi Steve, there was a condition put on the planning application for a reason: to avoid the flats having too much of an impact on the parking on the road. I have no idea why the gates were put on, but it looks like it breached the planning condition laid down in 2008.
I’m afraid you are wrong Steve & John Bodicoat. The gates were placed there when the flats were built so that the landlord could charge the residents to park. There has never been a misuse of the parking spaces. The car park is empty because no one will pay for a parking space! They park on Greenbank Road instead.
Agree Steve.
All well and good putting doubler yellow lines on the road but this is not really dealing with the problem that there is insufficient parking for the vets, should be looking into this.