PARKING restrictions around Hartford Train Station are set enforced.

Cheshire West and Chester Council are proposing banning parking at all times on a number of roads near the station, and banning parking on certain sections of roads between 10am to 11am.

The roads included in the proposals are the A559 in Chester Road, White Heart Gardens, Fullerton Road, The Crescent, Lambert Way, Booth Road, Grosvenor Avenue, Heyeswood Lane, Mornant Avenue, St Catherine Drive and Heyes Park.

In December 2014 pay and display units were installed at Hartford Train Station, which has subsequently seen commuters park on nearby roads to avoid the cost.

Phil Herbert, chairman of Hartford Parish Council, said the council have not been consultees in the proposals, and therefore remain neutral.

He said the proposals have been met positively by Hartford residents, although some have expressed concern.

He said: “One worry is that that the problem will be pushed elsewhere, but my own view is that it will dispersed and thinned out.

“People can still park at the station, it’s just they don’t want to pay. There are always spaces there.

“It will come to the point where people will have to walk so far they’ll just end up paying.”

Jenny Rayner, who is now retired, regularly used the station to travel to London when she was still working.

She said parking provisions currently at Hartford Station is ‘inadequate’ and called the proposals ‘unnecessarily restrictive’.

She said: “What I am appalled by is Cheshire West and Chester Council proposing to introduce this without any alternative parking. Where are people going to go?

“It also might discourage people to use Hartford Station, which could eventually see its closure.”

Anyone who wishes to object to the proposed order or to any on the provision contained in it, must do so in writing specifying the grounds on which it is made, to Kieran Collins, Place Area Manager, Cheshire West and Chester Council, Winsford Area Highways Office, Phoenix House, Clough Road, Winsford, Cheshire, CW7 4BD, quoting reference TRO 1492 by March 17.