A PUBLIC letter to Professor Steven Broomhead.

Can you please explain the borough council’s thinking to discontinue disabled parking and bring in general free for all parking at the top end of Cairo Street/ Sankey Street?

Trying to access the town centre from the disabled parking area in Palmyra Square via Cairo Street is a no-go area.

First just getting out of your car is an absolute nightmare due to the amount of leaves on the pavement.

The leaves have been there since autumn and are a health and safety issue.

Since its refurbishment, Cairo Street is now a car park for general use and a lounge bar for the tapas bar, complete with protective cover.

No signs about parking restrictions and not a parking warden in sight.

It would seem the borough council doesn’t like disabled parking too close to the town centre.

Why don’t you revert Cairo Street to parking on just one side instead of the free for all you have at the moment?

The tapas lounge should also remove its furniture/equipment from the public pavement.

If you want disabled parking in Palmyra Square, get the councillors who voted for the removal of disabled parking in Cairo Street to get out there with a brush and shovel clearing the leaves. Actually most of the public footpaths are full of leaves and overgrown hedgerows.

BRIAN WHITTAKER Great Sankey