Hay-on-Wye Cattle Market - a new car park for the town?

email to Phil Jackson Powys County Council - Transportation and Development Manager

Dear Mr Jackson

I am very pleased to see that the agenda for the Powys County Council Cabinet meeting on 26th Fabruary includes Resident's Parking as Item 8 C49 - 2013.

We in the community are looking forward to the proposals and plans we submitted to you in Summer last year, an updated copy of which we gave you and discussed at our meeting at Llandrindod with Councillor Ratcliffe and members of Hay Town Council on 6th February, being used as a basis for your final plans for the town.

Needless to say we are extremely keen to be involved in any plans for adapted or new restricted parking zones in Hay and hope you will take the opportunity of discussing your proposals with us.

I remain very concerned about one vital aspect of the plan we prepared - that is the opportunity of using the car par area of Hay cattle market as shared Pay and Display and Residents' Parking in the periods when it is not in use for the cattle market.  This is important if our parking proposals are to work properly but is dependent upon it being incorporated in any new lease or renewal being granted for cattle market.

Has any new lease or licence been granted for the market and if not, can we be assured that the potential for incorporation of a parking facility in the market will be part of that lease or agreement?   If a new lease or licence has already been granted, we must ask the same question!

I have forwarded this email to Councillors Gareth Ratcliffe, David Jones, Barry Thomas and Garry Banks for any comments they may have as well as published it on our blog crap-powys.blogspot.com.  Obviously your response and any received from councillors will similarly be published.

Best wishes

Campaign for a Realistic Approach to Parking