Walk around Cheadle village and you’ll see quite a few roads where there was obviously a double yellow line in the past and one of the lines has been painted out, leaving a single yellow.
Quite a few people have asked why it happened – and I didn’t know the answer.
Well, now I think I do.
A while ago the law changed with regard to double yellow lines. It used to be that you could have a double yellow line that only applied at certain times of day, and you needed a sign to say so.
Now, double yellow lines are valid with no signage, but are all or nothing – you can’t have double-yellows with time restrictions.
That was exactly the situation in Cheadle village. The double yellow lines only applied at certain times. When the law changed, that stopped being valid.
The Council decided to retain the same parking restrictions, and that required moving to single yellow lines with appropriate signs.
An alternative would be to get double yellow lines with no time restrictions (i.e. applied 24 hours a day, 7 days a week). That can be done, but there’s a legal process to go through that’s both expensive and time-consuming because of the large area involved.
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In Cheadle people disregard the single line parking restrictions whereas if the were double yellow lines I feel sure they would take more notice. There is NO enforcement of parking on Gatley Road from Warren Avenue along the High Street to Cheadle Green. Cars park regularly there and I could give you the registrations of the regular offenders.