Pupils at a primary school in Winsford have been striving to reduce the impact of parents and carers who park irresponsibly.

Students at St Joseph’s Catholic Primary School, on Woodford Lane, have been working with Cheshire West and Chester Council’s (CWAC) road safety team, Cheshire Police community support officers (PSCOs) and teachers to develop a new Parent Parking Charter.

The charter will see parents, drivers and school visitors make a pledge to reduce congestion and conflict outside the school, raise awareness of parking safely on surrounding roads, and encourage more active forms of transport on the school run. 

The school ran a competition to find a slogan for the parking charter banner that is now displayed at the gates. The winning slogan was ‘Look out kids about’.

This project goes hand in hand with cycle and pedestrian training to encourage families to walk, cycle, or scoot to school, while reducing the number of cars present at pick-up and drop-off times.

St Joseph’s is suggesting that parents and carers could park away from the school and walk part of their journey.

It would take around 15 minutes to walk to school from the Grange playground, or the playground on Rosewood Drive.