Crack Down on Pavement Parking

Sharon with Transport Minister Norman Baker

Cllr Sharon Ball reports that she had a chance to chat with Liberal Democrat Transport Minister Norman Baker on Tuesday afternoon and mentioned to him that she was pleased that he had passed powers to local councils to crack down on parking on the pavements and hoped that this would help her ward of Westmoreland.

She was pleased to hear that he felt that councils now had No excuse but to take action as they now had the powers to deal with the problems.

The problems in parts of Westmoreland are very bad and Sharon has already asked the Conservative executive member on Bath & North East Somerset Council to take note of the new powers that he has to act.