Sean Anstee is being disingenuous when he says the proposals for the Timperley library car park will provide "ample free parking" for residents and businesses.
All locals are aware that since parking restrictions were introduced in the village the library car park is often full these days.
Plonk 24 luxury flats in the middle of it and bring in a medical practice currently on Park Road and you increase demand for parking from new flat dwellers, medical centre staff, and patients.
Allocating one parking place to each two-bed luxury flat is ignoring the fact that the second and even third cars from the flats will be demanding space in the reduced size public car park.
The places allocated to the medical practice will not meet their demands, so again those people will be using the "public" parking places.
Add to this the fact that no public parking provision is to be made for disabled drivers, who now have three such places, (two places are reserved for the medical practice) and it becomes obvious that no consideration has been given to the public in these plans.
We don't need 24 new luxury flats in the village. However, as Ian Duncan-Smith has recently noted, many Conservatives in positions of power can be seen to be putting money before people. Here we go again.
A small number of already wealthy people will no doubt make a profit from these flats, and if ordinary Timperley residents suffer, well, who cares in Cameron and Osborne's Britain.
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