A VILLAGE trader is thinking of moving his business out of Lymm because of the problems he is facing since the new parking arrangements came into force on local car parks.
He is furious because the three car parks – Pepper Street, Davies Way and Henry Street – are frequently empty while surrounds roads are lined for parked cars.
A village centre flat-dweller is also planning to move home after being forced to pay a penalty charge for over-staying on one of the car parks.
She was taken ill and was unable to move her car or renew her parking ticket.
The two incidents have angered local councillor Sheila Woodyatt.
She said: “I am raising these matters with the parish council and the borough council.
“The new, shorter free parking times on the car parks are driving people away from the village.
“Is this what we want for Lymm? Surely not! It is about time people at the borough council listened to what the people of Lymm say.
“The parish council has been putting pressure on the borough to think again about the car parks ever since the changes were first proposed, but the borough will not listen.
“On Dickensian Day the car parks were full, because waiting was banned in all the side roads around the village.
“But at other times they are frequently half-empty while people are driving around looking for spaces to park.
“It is a terrible waste of an asset – and it is not doing the village any good.”
Free parking is restricted to one hour on all three car parks while previously Pepper Street was available free for two hours and the other two were free all the time.
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Until North Warrington starts to pay its own way, then Lymm and Stockton Heath will always be used as cash cows to subsidise them. The villages south of the ship canal would be far better off leaving Warrington Borough altogether and becoming part of Cheshire again – where they belong.
It may have escaped your notice but , in terms of local government (the only relevant definition of Cheshire to your remark), there isn’t a Cheshire to rejoin. Apart from that I feel sure that many of us would welcome the tories south of the canal re-enacting “Passport to Pimilco”.
We up north are sick and tired of the pretend posh people who in reallity have splashed out far too much on Fancy cars, homes, and handbags, that they can no longer afford a couple of quid to park said fancy car…………….you embarrass yourself inky…………………..
WARRINGTON BOROUGH council serves ALL BOROUGHS North East South and West……… however Lymm always seems to think itself a special case. What cases is Ms Woodyatt going to take to the council that a woman fell ill and left her car longer than she should have done resultiing in a ticket…….WOW….. that happens all over the world……. and cars using on street parking……………I daily see people park their cars in some of the roughest darkest sidestreets in manchester rather than pay 2 quid for a fully manned car park……………..WELCOME TO THE REAL WORLD…..oh my sweet lord….!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Nick – both Cheshire East and Cheshire West still exist as local authorities. Both are local authority areas with services geared to the needs of small Cheshire villages, which is what Lymm and Stockton Heath both ARE, they are NOT suburbs of the run down post-industrial South Lancs town with delusions of grandeur which is Warrington.
Si, If you think that WBC serves all of its borough area even handedly, can you explain why parking charges in Lymm and Stockton Heath (where the parking services already generate a financial surplus) have been increased cross subsidise loss making parking schemes in the north of the borough?
Stockton Heath a small Cheshire Village !!!! – I don’t think so – it’s an urban area as much as any other part of Warrington.
That would be Chester West with the small village of Chester and Chester East which includes those tiny hamlets of Crewe and Macclesfield would it?
yeah inky I can tell you why the north of the borough has its parking subsidised (Not that I can find any parking cheaper than on offer in Lymm or Stockton heath So who or what is being subsidised I’m not Sure)…but yes I can because in the North of the borough we have all the land fill sites, the factories, the offices, the jobs that many south of the water commute here for, we have the methodone drop in centres, the large noisy ever growing retail parks, the run down Town centre, the job centres, James Lee House, grotty off licences, even grottier council estates. Gridlocked Roads , Derelict land with funfair’s or hand car washes on….and on and on and on………………….so as you can see we have what Lymm cant stomach want Stockton heath doesnt want….so suck up a bit of a car parking charge and enjoy your blissfull ignorance of the TOWN OF WARRINGTON…..