Parking permits are to be introduced in Fazakerley to combat “long-stay parking issues” associated with the nearby hospital.
Liverpool Council has confirmed it is to introduce an experimental traffic regulation (TRO) across the North Liverpool suburb to address concerns raised by residents regarding parking issues stemming from Aintree University Hospital on Lower Lane. In a letter to residents, the local authority has confirmed that a residents parking scheme is being developed and “relevant signs and and road markings for the scheme will be implemented on site in the next few weeks.”
According to Liverpool Council’s own website, residents’ parking permits are only issued to people who live in properties in residential areas where parking has become a problem and a parking zone has been introduced. In some of these zones the local authority also offers the option to apply for visitor's permits.
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The Fazakerley scheme is part of a TRO, which will allow the council to monitor whether the existing parking problems are being transferred to particular locations. Once the scheme is in place, drivers will need to display a valid permit in their vehicle.
Those not doing so will receive a fixed penalty notice. Those who oppose the scheme can do so via a legal objection.
Concerns have been raised about the scheme from residents and businesses living near to the Merseyrail station on Longmoor Lane about the costs of permits and how many they can access. Fazakerley Labour councillor and assistant Mayor of Liverpool, Paul Brant, said issues of parking around the hospital and nearby train station have bothered residents “for years”.
He said: “There have been a lot of problems with parking, residents have complained about the issues around the hospital and we’ve got a lot of people who come from outside to use the station as well. The principal reasons are that there are problems now and will continue into the future.
“The footprint of this is quite wide, it has come in at long last and we will look at the effects and take into account what residents are saying.” A supplementary letter to the first correspondence from Lee Welsh, principal engineer - traffic management at Liverpool Council, will be issued to all residents and businesses in the area detailing how they can apply, date of enforcement taking place and how to legally object.
