One week left to oppose Prestwich car park charges
The “consultation” on plans to introduce car parking charges in Prestwich ends in one week, on August 9th. You have until then to let the Council know your thoughts.
I use inverted commas in “consultation” because, as ever, it’s not a proper consultation. The Conservatives running the Council have decided their policy and voted it through already. Now they are just concerned with the detail of the charges, not the principle of them which everyone I’ve spoken to disagrees with them about.
The time to tell them what you think about that approach to running Bury is at the ballot box in May. Right now it’s the time to let them know what you think about these charges. The address to write to is:
Transportation Services, PO Box 545, 3 Knowles Place, Duke St, Bury BL8 9HA
Lib Dems is Bury have been opposed to these charges since day 1. We voted against them when they were first proposed and have done ever since. We will continue the fight against them because they’re bad for local business and not fair on people needing to get to the local NHS facilities.
Let the Council know what you think of these proposals in this last week of the consultation.
Rick
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August 13th, 2010 at 3:46 pm
The proposed introduction of car parking charges in Prestwich is a hugely retrograde step. The argument is used that some people use the free parking on Fairfax St car park to leave their cars for the day and commute into Manchester via Metrolink. It is my understanding that GMPTA and its councils wanted to encourage commuters to use Metrolink. These people will still park their cars, but they will be driven onto residential streets around the station, inconveniencing those who live nearby. Moreover this will discourage people from shopping in Prestwich, not long after Whitefield centre (where there is free parking, ironically at the Metrolink station) has been refurbished, and immediately after the new Rock shopping centre in Bury has been opened. The introduction of car parking charges in Prestwich will realise a tiny amount of money in return for turning an already ailing centre into a ghost town.
August 14th, 2010 at 10:46 am
Unacceptable, what are the council thinking? Is it sensible to drive trade from Prestwich somewhere else purely to generate what will amount to a tiny bit of revenue?
We have only just started to see a return in shopping trade supporting our local businesses (I am one of them) why destroy it as this so called initiative will surely do?
August 14th, 2010 at 2:06 pm
I am totally apposed to the parking charges at prestwich which has been brought to my attention by an article in the MEN.Surely this area has been regenerated to attract more local people and this charge would make people think twice if they have to pay.