‘Unfair car park fees in deprived town’

CREWE shoppers and visitors are being exploited and ripped off by the Labour run Cheshire East Council on car park charges.

Crewe pays the highest parking fees in Cheshire East but in nine other

towns (Sandbach,alsager, Middlewich, Handforth,pre stbury,poynton,bollington, Disley and Holmes Chapel) motorists pay nothing to park.

How has this ever been allowed? This unfairness has gone on for 12 years, since the borough council was formed.

The Tories led the council from 2009 to 2019, and since then Labour have led.

Neither party has done anything to stop this gross unfairness to Crewe over car parking charges.

We say, enough is enough. We are calling for the parking charges in Crewe to be halved, and to make up the shortfall in income by charging the same for every council car park in all the towns across the borough.

Crewe is the most deprived town in the whole of Cheshire East. Five of the six most deprived wards in Cheshire East (out of 52) are in Crewe.

So how come Crewe has the highest car parking charges, and in nine better off towns there are no parking charges at all?

Crewe town centre is in a spiral of decline, so hefty car parking charges only make matters worse.

The Grand Junction Retail Park, in Earle Street, with 800 free car parking spaces, has become the alternative town centre for Crewe.

The way that Crewe has been allowed to decline is very sad.

The existing Tory and Labour councillors have presided over the freefall of Crewe, and it is about time the town was revived.

CLLR BRIAN SILVESTER PUTTING CREWE FIRST CANDIDATE, CREWE WEST