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PAY to park: Beech Avenue, Hazel Grove
Brakes put on paid parking scheme?
13/ 2/2008
PLANS to introduce paid parking schemes across Stockport are "dead in the water" according to a campaigner opposed to the move.
A series of recommendations are set to go before Stockport Council executive next Monday on the controversial scheme which would have seen residents paying £20 for annual permits to park on streets across the borough.
It had also been planned to disband 146 free schemes across the borough by April, forcing residents to apply for the paid schemes, but this has now been scrapped. Currently only Beech Avenue, Hazel Grove, and Cromwell Road, Bramhall, are paying the £20 annual permit.
Campaigner Mike Wacker said under the new recommendation 51 percent of residents had to approve parking permits for the paid scheme to be implemented.
"If 51 percent don’t approve it will take a very brave area committee to disband the current schemes. My advice to residents in these unpaid schemes is to do nothing. Don’t answer any questions during this consultation or vote, and their current scheme will remain in place.
"I think it’s dead in the water because it has effectively been split into three schemes. In the last two years the Council has spent at least £20,000, and over the next 18 months they intend to spend even more council tax payers’ money on encouraging residents to join this unattractive scheme."
Coun Syd Lloyd, who has also been involved in the heated debate, said: "What the Lib-Dem leadership has realised is that there is no take up for the scheme. It’s absolutely ludicrous. The leadership is in turmoil, it has no sense of direction, and it’s a complete shambles."
Stockport Council refused to comment on the report’s recommendations ahead of next week’s meeting except to say it would be carried out "in line with current Council policy".
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