Pay and Display, is it the Way ?

Posted by Philip Sexton on Monday, 9 March 2009, at 08:46

To say this has proved to be a bone of contention amongst the different traders within the village centre would be an understatement.

The only thing I dont understand is when the discussions were taking place why weren't the concerns raised at the meetings. We could have worked together and come up with a compromise that would best suit all parties. Doing this before the consultation took place would have shortened the period before implementation of the finalised scheme, and also seen everybody working together.

A changed scheme looks likely to be implemented fairly soon, but personally I dont see how this will tackle the car sharing problems or reduce the amount of unnecessary long stay parkers.

I do hope Davies Way facility is redesigned to allow more spaces, it has so much potential which is not being utilised fully at the moment.

I would ask everyone to try to work together and at least give a little consideration to the plight of others. Only considering ones own needs is unacceptable, we all want Lymm to thrive, it will benefit everybody concerned, to ensure this happens we are all going to have to make some slight adjustments.

Do you believe we should make some small sacrifice to help our fellow businesses or not ?

 

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3/9/2009 12:59:19 PM #

You are right, Phil. It would have been better if the traders had been able to present a unified stance.
In fact, since our piece appeared in Lymm Life, I have been approached by a number of traders who did not support the "pay and display on all car parks" approach and who favour the "Pepper Street only" option.
That would appear to be the best we can expect to get and we can only hope the council will live up to their promise to consider extending the scheme later

David Skentelbery gb

3/9/2009 3:22:37 PM #

Yes David, the businesses in question came out of the woodwork when the reality of the situation hit them I suppose.
I hope we will all learn a little from this and work together, united in our long term aims.

The next meeting will be aimed at achieving this and reviewing our long term agenda.

Philip Sexton gb

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