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by Lib Dem team on 5 December, 2010
After years of warnings, the police are cracking down on illegal parking outside schools with a zero tolerance policy, which started from 1st December.
Please be considerate: drive safely and park legally if you need to drive to school.
Councillors will be kept up to date by the police on how many tickets have been issued at each school.
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Let’s hope that this will include the police effectively dealing with the dangerous parking around Schools Hill. I recall you saying in the past that the cops had given up there because these inconsiderate people could afford to just to keep paying the fines and keep on parking
Lady Barn House on Schools Hill is one of the schools the police will be targeting, but they can of course only act within the law.
I wish this applied all over Cheadle and Gatley not just at schools.
i didn’t think the police got involved with illegal parking or has this changed?
Q. Why do parking attendants wear Hi-Viz jackets?
A. So the illegally parked motorists can see them coming and swiftly remove their vehicles before they have time to be booked.
Shouldn’t parking attendants be covert and revered by motorists – it appears the opposite is true!
The police can take action where cars are parked on the zig-zag lines outside school or are causing an obstruction (e.g. parked so they block the pavement).
The police can no longer enforce people parking on single or double yellow lines since that’s been decriminalised.
We’re hoping that we can find ways for the police and the Council’s Civil Enforcement Officers to work more closely together.
With the hi-vis jackets, I don’t think the enforcement officers are allowed to hide and hand out tickets by stealth, even though it would sometimes be handy if they could. Good question to find out more about, though.
With only zig-zag lines enforceable it will make no difference to obstruction on St Annes Road North/Foxland Road – already additionally hazardous from the failure to enforce the speed limit. The Lib-dems have lost my vote with the abject failure to follow The Law and now to cripple enforcement due to police cuts!
By law, only the zig-zag lines are enforceable by police. That’s why we’re looking to get the police working together with the Council’s officers to be able to enforce fully.
On police officer numbers, there are lots of scare stories flying about. Greater Manchester spends more than any other force in the country on back-office functions (59% back-office against 41% frontline). There is money that needs to be saved, but it doesn’t look like big front-line cuts will be needed.
And I have to say that the reason we have to make these cuts is that Labour left the country paying £120 million a day in interest payments and borrowing £400 million a day – if we don’t act now, we’ll have to cut even more in future and I’m a firm believer that we need to clear up this mess and not leave it to our children and grandchildren to sort out.