New Car Park open - and it’s free until 2nd January 2008!
On Thursday the contractors were rolling the last of the tarmac, yesterday they were painting the white lines - and today the extended Christchurch Way Car Park was open for business! Just in time for today’s Farmers’ Market.
An extra 70 parking spaces in the town will surely be welcomed by traders and shoppers alike - but many will wonder why it’s taken the Borough Council ten years or more to get this work done. However much I welcome positive news, I am very concerned that the original plans appear to have been disregarded in that large sections of the hedge between the new car park and the footpath have been ripped out - despite the plans showing the hedge as “to be retained”. And surely there should be a fence erected in the border to protect the remaining hedge from being damaged?
The good news, however, is that no charges are being imposed until January 2nd next year - an early Christmas present to our shoppers! Coupled with the no charge on Saturday afternoons until Christmas announced by the Borough, Stone is obviously the place to come to for your Christmas shopping!
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