Extra £700,000 to ease estate parking woes
An extra £700,000 is to be made available to improve car parking on housing estates across Telford & Wrekin.
The funds are being made available through Telford & Wrekin Pride in Our Community programme, as part of its 2018/19 budget.
The announcement has been welcomed by Councillor Connor Furnival, who said residential parking was a major problem in many parts of the borough.
He hoped some of the money would be used for increasing the number of spaces on estates with shared communal parking areas, which were designed in the days when most households had just one car.
"I welcome the initiative of allocating £700,000 toward estate parking issues as this is a key issue across the borough,” said Councillor Furnival, who represents The Nedge ward.
“I have been dealing with issues of parking in many areas in my ward including, and unfortunately due to past budgets for highways I have not had a great deal of success.
"Now it appears that something can be done.”
Cabinet member for transport, Councillor Mrs Angela McClements, said: “We plan to deliver at least 400 additional parking spaces in our urban residential areas to address parking challenges as part of our £45 million Pride In Our Community programme of investment.
“Over the next 12 months, we will be investing £7.5m in delivering 340 schemes across the borough which includes improving parking on our estates."
