Sheffield neighbours' group support street parking ban

The Star, Sheffield

Caroline Irving of Cemetery Road Action Group speaks to  Local Democracy Reporter Julia Armstrong about why her group backs a Sheffield Council parking ban on nearby Montague Street, Sharrow

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00:00So I'm talking to Caroline Irving who's one of the members of Cemetery Road Action Group known as CRAG

00:05and we're just next to Montague Street Caroline and there's a petition to get

00:12the parking back on this street and your group's opposed to that aren't you can

00:16you tell me why? Well it's kind of nonsense we had parking on here many many years ago

00:22and it led to lots of anti-social behavior lots of litter fly tipping the

00:29parking was used primarily for people working in offices in the local area

00:34starting at seven in the morning and leaving at the evening when the druggies

00:38and people were coming so there's no real call for it in the meantime working in

00:43partnership with the cemetery trust they have lots of events and happenings and

00:50keeping the bit of road clear of extraneous parking mean that they can get in and

00:56efficiently do whatever they need to do and it stops it being an inconvenience

01:01for anybody yeah so there's absolutely no good reason to bring any parking back in

01:06here. The other thing you want to do we're just a way behind you there's a

01:11like a pathway can you tell me about your plans for that as well? Yes there's a

01:14pathway that goes down to goes from Cemetery Road essentially down to Porter

01:21Croft School and the Eckertal Road and it's used by people to cut through down

01:26there for the shops and the buses and or even back up to the hospitals and schools

01:31the other side and it's very steep the bit from between Cemetery Road and Napier Street

01:37at the bottom and it also has the wildlife bit of the open green space and the

01:43cemetery to the other side and we just wanted to make that into a nicer

01:48experience for people coming through maybe make the path a bit windier so if

01:53you're pushing a heavy pushchair it's not quite so daunting yeah and also to put

01:59some extra climbing things in for the younger children and their siblings who

02:03may or may not be at the school so it's part of the climbing Sheffield to balance

02:10with this great big quite typical to climb rock yeah I'm just going to turn around for a

02:14second there's a climbing boulder here which is obviously not a real thing but

02:18it'll add to that so obviously from your point of view having cars here would be a

02:25bit of a disaster really it would be horrible it would interfere with so much

02:29that's happening to make it such a much nicer space there seems to be no good

02:34reason to do so

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