Parking chaos near Abbeydale school
PARKING chaos during school hours in Abbeydale has led to calls from residents for private parking bays, banning parents from clogging up roads and blocking driveways.
Last term, Police Community Support Officers worked with pupils and staff at Heron Primary School to encourage parents not to park on residential roads when they were dropping their children off.
The message was that illegal parking was causing a danger to children. But the steps have not gone far enough to calm residents.
Some say the area is a nightmare for parking and are worried the problems will re-surface once school starts again this week.
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Residents say when they return home at peak times, they often have nowhere to park as their spaces have been taken up by parents.
Driveways and garages are often blocked and many cars are parked dangerously.
Parking manager at Gloucestershire County Council Jim Daniels said: "We are committed to addressing safety concerns outside the county's schools and would consider a permit scheme should it receive the support of the community and contribute to solving a parking problem in the wider area."
Police say their hands are tied when it comes to monitoring illegal parking, with PCSOs often called away to asses other trouble areas outside schools. Shift patterns also restrict the availability of officers.
One resident, who lives in Grebe Close but wanted to remain anonymous, said: "I have received verbal abuse from parents when they have been asked to move their car.
"Often I come home from work and I'm unable to park. On one occasion my car was blocked in and I couldn't leave for work, it made me late. We live here and should not have to put up with this. I do not have children so this issue isn't something I considered when buying a house. I want to move but financially this is not viable.
"Morrison's is actively encouraging the use of their car parking facilities. I am asking parents to please give some thought to residents who live near the school."
Councillor Andrew Gravells said: "Some people who live by the school have had to take some nasty verbal abuse from a minority of thoughtless parents who park in an inconsiderate way in their road.
"I'm talking to the Highways team at the council, the police, and the school, to try to find a solution here."
Comments
by bonzaharris1
Tuesday, September 04 2012, 5:53PM
“CfromGlos, How a parent drops a 5/6/7 year old off at school is their problem and responsibilty, and should not affect residents living nearby. Parents dropping off their children have no right to park in front of, or on someones private driveway, [as I have seen happen] or in a manner that is dangerous, ie parking on a bend so oncoming cars have no clear vision of traffic coming the other way. That is how accidents happen. Where I live there is school nearby, halfway up a hill. Parents park all the way up the hill top to bottom. As you drive up or down you cannot see oncoming cars until you are committed. Then you have the great fun of trying to reverse up or down a very steep hill to let traffic pass. Chuck a couple of busses into the mix and you have a dangerous situation to both motorists, children and parents. The parents don't seem to have the brains they were born with to have the sense to leave gaps that other cars can pull in to let traffic pass. Either that or they are totally selfish and couldn't care less, because any fool can see the problem. Apparently the school is aware of the problem, so I would imagine they have metioned it to parents, and been totally ignored. Parents could use the car park at the bottom of the hill, but perish the thought that they should walk less than a couple of hundred yards. As for parents having jobs, I suggest they leave 10 minutes or so earlier to give themselves plenty of time to drop their children off safely. Their problems should not be nearby residents problems.”
by CfromGlos
Tuesday, September 04 2012, 3:54PM
“dcfc79 How can you drop a 5/6/7 year old off at the gates? Be serious!
And you are correct, a walk wont harm anyone, and Im sure if all the parents have the time they would love to walk the children to school, but lots of people have jobs!
I agree that people should not park illegally but other than that if people live by a school what do you expect?”
by CfromGlos
Tuesday, September 04 2012, 3:54PM
“dcfc79 How can you drop a 5/6/7 year old off at the gates? Be serious!
And you are correct, a walk wont harm anyone, and Im sure if all the parents have the time they would love to walk the children to school, but lots of people have jobs!
I agree that people should not park illegally but other than that if people live by a school what do you expect?”
by Pebbles23
Tuesday, September 04 2012, 3:50PM
“Get a traffic warden up there to issue a few tickets. That'd sort it nicely.”
by dcfc79
Tuesday, September 04 2012, 2:40PM
“And it starts again, why can't people just use common sense, no need to walk the kids to the gate, drop them off and drive off. They have the option of using the morrisons car park yet wont use it, why is that then ? too far to walk maybe ? well a walk wont harm anyone”
by MentalBeaver
Tuesday, September 04 2012, 1:32PM
“The residents have private parking bays - their garages and driveways. Report the cars that park illegally (on double yellow lines or blocking driveways/garages) but watch out for karma because I bet a lot of residents park on the pavement outside their driveway/garage.
You simply won't stop parents parking in the residential streets, the best you can do is try and stop them parking like idiots such as the ones that think it's okay to stop on the double yellow lines on Heron Way by the school. That could be easily solved by asking the lollipop lady to put out a couple of cones in the morning.”