Windmill Road still siege area due to pay parking
THE return of pay parking has done nothing to help the under-siege residents of Windmill Road and Anneville Crescent.
They have now requested an informal meeting with all the town councillors in a bid to assist them.
Several meetings took place with the council, engineers and hospital management in recent months in a bid to resolve the problems on the street.
For large parts of the day, locals are unable to get parking outside their homes, impacting on deliveries and collections and on the likes of carers.
‘We feel we have been very patient about all of this. We have met everybody and had discussions and suggestions but as of today, we are seemingly no further on. We still can’t park outside our homes,’ local resident and campaigner Caroline Gormley said.
THE return of pay parking has done nothing to help the under siege residents of the Windmill Road and Anneville Crescent.
They have now requested an informal meeting with all the town councillors in a bid to assist them.
A series of meetings took place with the council, engineers and hospital management in recent months in a bid to resolve the problems on the street.
For large parts of the day, locals are unable to get parking outside their homes, impacting on deliveries and collections and on the likes of carers.
It was bad when parking was free and is just as bad now.
‘We feel we have been very patient about all of this. We have met everybody and had discussions and suggestions but as of today, we are seemingly no further on. We still can’t park outside our homes’, Caroline Gormley stated.
They have looked at other locations and seen what can be done with the right resolve to get solutions to problems.
‘We sent in 200 submissions from the area and we want to know have any of those been addressed.
‘For the likes of Anneville Crescent, bollards placed on the path at double yellow lines will stop that issue. They ask can that be done.
Major fears are with emergency service vehicles being unable to get through the area due to the volume of cars.
‘As we look out our windows, it seems we are back at square one. We are waiting and waiting but we will meet anybody halfway on this.
‘ The issues here are only growing, being so close to a regional hospital. We need to sort this out now’, she stated.
The meeting with the councilllors takes place on Monday August 27 at 7.30pm at Millmount.