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by Lib Dem team on 22 February, 2011
Pam and I have been contacted by several people concerned that, in the last couple of weeks, a lot of motorists are parking on St Ann’s Road North by the rear of Cheadle Royal.
The suspicion is that it’s people who work on Cheadle Royal choosing to park there and walk in.
The problem is that the roads quite narrow and it’s making passing that section tricky.
Pam and I, with our colleagues in Heald Green, will look at improving the situation. Painting lots of yellow lines is a last resort as it will more than likely just move the problem down the road or onto side roads, and Cheadle Royal’s managed to run for plenty of years without this problem.
We’re initially working to find out why the cars are parking there and to put pressure on Cheadle Royal’s owners and the businesses there to keep cars on the site.
3 Comments
NOT as tricky or as narrow as Cambridge Road next to Gatley Railway station where rail users park on both sides of the road and make this a difficult road to drive down. Especially when you come off Gatley Road and have to brake with your tail end on still on Gatley Road because the access is blocked with parked cars. Reported many times but nobody takes any notice.
The top of Oakwood Avenue in Gatley near the railway embankment is also a serious problem with railway commuters parked on both sides of the road, leaving insufficient room for 2-way traffic. Have seen so many near misses and examples of road rage.
Car parking has become a problem throughout the area in recent years. As a pedestrian with a child’s double buggy, my problem is vehicles parked on footpaths. This is particularly bad near to St. Ann’s Road North on a section of Buttermere Road, and also at the bottom end of Troutbeck Road where a large furniture van has been parked evenings and weekends on the pavement for over a year.
At least the cars parked on St. Ann’s Road North are on the road, and have the positive side effect of slowing down the traffic flow to somewhere near to the 20mph limit.