Concerns about parking close to junctions in Alsager has led to an additional proposed traffic order being requested.

Speaking at last Tuesday's Alsager Town Council meeting, Cllr Pauline Hubbard spoke about the parking issues near Cedars Medical Centre.

A resident has expressed their concerns to Cllr Hubbard about the number of cars that are parked along the road on Cedar Avenue near the area that is opposite the medical centre and continuing down to Rowan Close.

The resident described the parking to Cllr Hubbard as an "accident waiting to happen".

According to the concerned resident, there is now frequent parking of vehicles "bumper to bumper" from the junction of Cedar Avenue, where it meets Station Road off Sandbach Road South, down past The Thirteen Club, to just before the access to Rowan Close.

Speaking on behalf of the resident, Cllr Hubbard added: "When having to travel past this line of cars one is obviously on the wrong side of the road and if a vehicle approaches in the opposite direction there is nowhere to take evasive action.

"Even worse at the bottom end you are approaching a blind right-hand bend on the wrong side of the road, so if anything is coming towards you there is no way of avoiding a collision.

"I am looking to ask the town council to support a request to the appropriate officer at Cheshire East, to examine the parking issue giving the changes I believe there are in traffic in this area and the increased parking.

"It does appear to be associated with changes in parking habits which are due to/since Covid-19 and to also seek the introduction of double yellow lines in the area of the Rowan Close bend."

Cllr Hubbard, who has experienced the issues herself, continued: "I do believe this is a particular issue that has emerged in the last 18 months and more recently with whatever is happening at the medical centre around issues that might be associated with Covid-19."

Cllr Rod Fletcher, chair of Alsager Town Council, felt that there had "been a problem" in that area for "some time".

He told the meeting that there was a site visit in March 2019 where there was a request for double yellow lines along that stretch.

But according to Cllr Fletcher, after investigating, the highways officers "could only come up" with a scheme which was on the corner of Station Road and Cedar Avenue, as vehicles could not turn right off Station Road into Cedar Avenue, because motorists had parked right on the corner.

Cllr Fletcher believed the town council should request a traffic order near the bend by Rowan Close, which might "receive some sympathy" and if granted the town council could then ask for the double yellow lines to be extended towards Station Road.

However, the Liberal Democrat councillor did not want the latest request to be associated with the current traffic order which he claimed had taken 18 months to get to this stage.

The current order, by Cheshire East, would prohibit waiting by vehicles at all times on all days on parts of Sandbach Road South, Station Road and Cedar Avenue.

Councillors agreed that Cllr Fletcher would take chairman's actions and ask for the traffic order to be implemented near the bend by Rowan Close.