BIG PICTURE
I READ with outrage your readers’ recent letters about parking at the ten pin bowling alley at Lyme Green. However it gets worse.
Recently on our way home from Derby my wife wanted to call at Next and I parked near the store and she went in the shop.
As I was desperate for a ‘comfort break’ I walked to Burger King as there are no toilets on the Lyme Green complex.
To my utter dismay, when I returned a few minutes later, I noticed a parking ticket on my windscreen advising me to pay a fine of £100 if not paid straight away.
The large sign on the car park entrance states - maximum three hours - however in very small writing on an internal sign it says drivers should not leave their car on the car park and go elsewhere.
I appealed, explaining my circumstances but got the usual, ‘you left the site so tough luck response’, and had to pay a reduced fine of £60.
I remember the days when Lyme Green was like a ghost town.
But now, with the new range of shops, it has become a shopping destination.
Name and address supplied
NASTY TURN IN FOREST
WALKING my dog in Macclesfield Forest I came across a cyclist.
He was riding on a no cycling path, the third one I had witnessed him cycling on, sometimes at speed.
When I pointed out it was no cycling, as he could have been unaware, I got a mouth full of abuse and he threatened me with violence.
Now I estimated his age at mid twenties, which is fine, but I am a pensioner of 68!
Not so fine.
It’s all very well them thinking that they’re untouchable but they are not insured and I have nearly been hit by one on these same paths.
I took photos and he said I could do what I wanted with them as no one will do anything anyway.
Which unfortunately is probably true.
Donald Hallam, via email
WHO IS MAKING BREXIT PROFIT?
THE cost of Brexit –
£4.4bn so far. Dear, Mr (David) Rutley, what an absolutely shocking waste of money....and this for something even you didn’t believe in .
What about an open meeting for the people of Macclesfield at which you tell us all why this is money well spent and who exactly is making a profit from it?
Jeff and Lorna Teasdale, Prestbury Road, Macclesfield
THE sinkhole saga on Hobson Street continues with sewage pipes damaged and the hole itself now something of a crater. Here’s your reaction and thoughts on the wider problem of holes in the road.
Sarah Cortez: I live on Hobson Street! It’s terrible. Zero communication from the council, despite writing to David Rutley to complain about it.
June Heath: Now with all the worry in the world about coronavirus, how does this affect sewage coming up through manholes in Mr Biggar’s garden? On one hand they want to promote the lovely town. But, on the other hand they’re letting the people down.
Carole Barlow: Who has been up Brook Street? I nearly broke my neck crossing Brook Street heaven knows what all those holes are doing to cars. I feel a bundle of problems coming on with damaged cars.
John Butler: People’s cars are daily getting damaged because of the amount of pot holes that seem to have been there for ever. A little bit of water at the bottom of the walking path that leads to Moss Lane has been fixed extremely quickly.