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Before she moved here, Stacey used to live in Wekka and we never had a problem parking in Morrisons for shopping. Although, it is a bit small for the local populous (nobody will walk 5 yards). The fact that 90% are pensioners who should have been off the road years ago, doesn't help with the confusion you sometimes see taking place lol.

The fact that 90% are pensioners who should have been off the road years ago, doesn't help with the confusion you sometimes see taking place lol.
MATTLFC.
SO I TAKE IT YOU WILL HAND YOUR CAR KEYS AND DRIVING LICENCE BACK WHEN YOUR A PENSIONER.

Not all of them, but most of them do seem like they're in another world most of the time... and don't have a clue about modern road signs and regulations.

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The Government were looking into making private car parking tickets legally enforceable as a conciliation for making the rules over clamping on private property stricter. However, they are largely unenforceable - plenty of info on the web.
Bad example. The car park at the Neptune Development doesn't belong to Morrisons, and is there for anyone using any of the facilities at Marine Point. There is even a large sign at the entrance to that car park saying something like "The Light Multiscreen Cinema - Free Car Park".

There was a free public car park in Dee Lane, West Kirby. Then they built Safeways on the site, which Morrisons took over.

After the Claughton Road and Conway Street area was cleared for the flyovers, a free car park was built. Then they built the first Asda store. When Asda was demolished, the car park was re-vamped, and later lost a bit in building the new bus terminus, but it wasn't free anymore.

While at Arrowe Park, there was a free public car park from before the hospital was built. Its on Arrowe Park Road, on the north-east corner of the site, from where you can walk into the park. Some of the hospital car parks were adjacent to it. When the barriers went up and the hospital charged for parking, they made the only way in or out via the barriers with a ticket. The old blue 'P' sign was still there then. I have not looked lately, but it might still be there. To me, it always looked like the hospital were now charging to use a free public car park. How could that happen?

Back in Birkenhead, a few car parks were created on the land where the houses of Camden St etc once stood. Europa Boulevard, some offices and Conway Park station were built, leaving just the rough surface car park on Price St, its actual entrance being Camden St itself. There was a man in a hut who took the car parking charge, and no charge was made for motorcycles. Then just after New Year (1999 I think), a 'Public Notice' appeared in the local paper - Pay & Display from 1st March. I asked the man in the hut, but nobody had told him! (He did say that he had seen council workmen putting up a notice on the lamp post that day. It was indeed a copy of the Order. Nice way to find out you were to loose you're job.)
Anyway, the Order made provision for Pay & Display for all vehicles (including motorbikes) to be parked on the surface of the car park, in a marked space and not its verges or borders, as well as display a valid ticket stuck to the inside of the windscreen.
Last time I went past there was still no propper surface or markings and there aren't too many bikes with windscreens! So it makes you wonder if a fine on there would be enforcable. (Perhaps with the right lawyers?)

Anybody tried to work out the number of parking places that have been lost on the front at New Brighton? I think its well over 100. And where do you park a coach full of day trippers these days?

And why don't the council use some of the land by Birkenhead North as a 'Park & Ride'? I guess they would have to fund a firm of transport consultants to find out.

On the Morrisons web site for New Brighton is clearly says Parking is limited to two hours.

Problem is when you're working a 9 hour shift 30 minutes isnt long enough

free parking down town today

Its great if you only need a few bits mid week though and the car park is grid locked. If I was there for 9 hours I would park on one of the streets if the car park was full. I lived in West Kirby for 10 years and never once paid to park on my frequent trips into that end of the place. Most of the time it was on the way back from somewhere else so I would be in the car and not on foot.

Is this every Sunday, or just today?

dont know matt, i will find out next week

every sunday

About time too, it used to be free on Sundays anyway. Did this start recently, I don't remember it being in place before Xmas??

Great way to boost trade if so!

think the new charges started on friday? the memo said 'spring' but think it's permanent.