School is ‘worst for pArking in the city’

A Peterborough infant school has been branded the most troublesome for parking, and the headteacher has warned that a child will be seriously hurt before long. Parking enforcement officers have handed out 67 penalty charge notices at Queen’s Drive Infant School since last April - more than outside any other school.

And one enforcement officer, Katrina Starbuck, said the school in Queen’s Drive West, near Central Park, has the worst parking problems that she has witnessed across the city.

Katrina, an officer in the SaferPeterborough Prevention and Enforcement Service (PES), said: “It’s just the amountofcarsthatstopwher- evertheywantwithnoconsideration for anybody else.”

School headteacher Sarah Skinneradded:“Parentsparking their cars badly outside our school is a big problem.

“I fear it is only a matter of timebeforeapupilisseriously hurt due to this irresponsible and dangerous parking.”

PES officers have carried out more than 680 school visits across thecity overthepast year and issued around 200 penalty charge notices since April 2016.

Fines can be £50 or £70 althoughthesearehalvedifpaid within 14 days.

PES officers have been visiting Queen’s Drive the most, followed by Arthur Mellows Village College in Glinton, Discovery Primary School in Walton and Paston Ridings Primary School in Paston.

In total, more than 15,000 penalty charge notices have been handed out for all parking offences in Peterborough.

A car parked in the middle of the road outside Queen’s Drive Infant School