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These are all the streets included in the plan for an expanded residents' parking scheme around the Etihad Stadium
17.03.2022 - 11:31 / manchestereveningnews.co.uk
Plans for an extended residents' parking scheme around the Etihad Stadium have been put forward. Most streets around the east Manchester campus containing Manchester City's Stadium currently have restrictions on parking on match days and on other event days such as concerts.
However, work is currently underway on a new £350 million indoor music and sports arena next to the stadium.
With a capacity of 23,500 Co-op Live, currently under construction on land bordered by the Ashton Canal, Alan Turing Way and Joe Mercer Way, will become the biggest facility of its kind in Britain when it opens next year. Town hall chiefs say during the consultation period for the arena plans, parking was one of the biggest issues brought up by residents in nearby areas.
They were worried that the dozens of extra events a year would increase the demand for parking on their residential streets by visitors and negatively affect their day-to-day lives.
Residents in Beswick who the Manchester Evening News spoke to on a City matchday last Wednesday said the parking situation as it was around their homes was already a 'nightmare' and that they had resorted to putting wheelie bins on the road outside their front doors to prevent inconsiderate and illegal parking. Now, Manchester City Council are consulting on an expanded residents parking scheme to replace the current numerous ones spread out around the stadium.
It would, they say, expand to include some areas not included in the existing scheme, but which are within walking distance of the Etihad Campus. The proposals would see all housing estates between Pin Mill Brow and Clayton Vale brought under the new all-encompassing scheme affecting areas including Ancoats, New Islington, Beswick,
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