Mill gates bid to cut parking

0 Comments | Cheadle Post & Times; Stoke-on-Trent (UK), Jul 14, 2010

Electronic gates are expected to be installed next to an historic mill in a bid to stop unauthorised parking.

Luxury flat builder Bovale claimed parked cars were discouraging potential home owners from making offers for apartments at its Tean Mill complex. A clamping initiative it introduced in May last year in Hall Yard Road – which had been used as a free ad-hoc car park for more than two decades – reduced many unsuspecting drivers to tears.

An application to put up 1.65 metre-high gates at the entrance to its development is recommended for approval by Staffordshire Moorlands District Council tomorrow.

The plan has received five letters of objection, as well as five letters of support.

The gates would be erected to the north east of Hall Meadow, an existing row of four workers’ cottages, which Bovale claims have no private parking provision. Pedestrian access to the cottages would remain unrestricted.