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Brilliant post Granny

Parking in Heswall (where the car parks are now 3/4 empty) - £1.05 per hour - Parking in Mold £0.20 for 3 hours.

Also in Heswall - stasi-like hit squads on scooters - who will ticket you if you are 1 minute late....

All very discouraging to the shopping experience here - no wonder the traders are worried..

Seems to be the difference is, Mold wants to encourage shoppers, while Wirral wants a pound of flesh for every time you leave the house.

Rock it Granny!

From my view from the fort as a volunteer in the Marine Radio museum ,we get loads of visitors from around the world, this year we have had a number of people who told us they were going up to the Lakes/Scotland with their caravans/campers and decided they would pop down to Wirral as it's a hidden gem so someone had told them from where ever they come from, even with the rain yesterday we had a some visitors who are staying at the hotel for a few days, doing the area and ferry and as it's safe free parking etc, start charging for parking at New Brighton and it will kill stone dead the tourism which is just restarting, maybe the Councillors have eyes just on the clouds in the sky Wirral Waters and couldn't care less as they know if they wear a red rosette they will get voted back in again.

"plenty more places to go" whisper it, otherwise they'll be charging for those as well!

They could charge outside the town hall instead of hitting tourists and day trippers. £5 per day, say 50 spaces would bring in around £60,000 a year. But then this would hit the council workers so they are not going to do the obvious are they.

I did ask about why they don't charge there and was told it was for the residents use, I would love to see all residents fill it on a Monday morning before the flexi time council get there. :-)

More despair. I read in the Liverpool Daily Post that Wirral has borrowed £25m at a rate of over 4% so how on earth do they justify lending at less than 1%. Is there anyone there?????????

Of course, I, not being a resident, am not affected by all these machinations: if it's any comfort, you're not alone, Shropshire is just as bad.

ssssh! - if they find out where everybody is going - you know what will happen there....

Lol too much info.

Ah the Tories - they were 'brilliant' the last time they were in - and acted like the opposition moaning about the previous incumbents and coming up with nothing constructive.

I personally think we have been poorly-served by all colours of the local parties for at least the last 20 years.

The rate things are going the 66 councillors will be the largest collectively-employed group on the Wirral....! and the least-qualified.

Not just the local parties; the national parties too.

I do agree with you on this (must be a first time)