Places

Tomorrow is the next meeting of the places committee - and there's two things I've noticed on the agenda that interest me.

The first is that they've recognised the need to look deeper at tourism and are going to set up a tourism task group.

Tourism has previously contributed £600 million to Cheshire East and there's no reason that this can't increase as people feel the squeeze and decide not to holiday abroad. Personally, I think that tourism is the way forward for places like Macclesfield - and is a much better solution that cheap looking, reproduction shopping centres which are going to offer no culture to our town whatsoever.

The second thing that interested me was this quote in relation to parking:
"...need for a decision within Congleton borough for enforcement of both on & off street parking"

They don't enforce at moment because off street parking is free and so they have limited issues. By saying this, it's been made clear to me that someone inside Cheshire East has already decided that Congelton will be paying to park from April next year.

This sums up my view on this: