Cheshire East Council owns and operates a range of car parks and parking places throughout the Borough. It applies and enforces the regulations and conditions of parking. It also has responsibility for enforcement of parking and waiting restrictions on streets, mainly yellow line restrictions.
With the introduction of Civil Parking Enforcement, Cheshire East Council has taken over the responsibility for enforcing parking, loading and waiting, and other restrictions at various locations. Illegal parking on the street will no longer be classed as a criminal offence and becomes a civil contravention.
Civil Enforcement Officers will issue Penalty Charge Notices (PCNs) to any vehicle parking illegally and will enforce on-street parking as well as in car parks. CEOs will visit the busiest central zone car parks most often to ensure that customers comply with the rules on each site. We will issue parking notices (known as Penalty Charge Notices or PCNs) to those who do not comply.
There are also privately run off-street car parks – these are not the responsibility of this Council. If you have a query concerning these please make direct contact with the company who manage the private car park.
The council regularly reviews its services and consults on new developments including things like parking enforcement, payment methods, civic car parks.
For more information view the Reviews and Consultation section.
To let the public know about any changes to parking in their area that may affect them, the council will publish a public notice to describe this.
For more information view the Car Parking Public Notice Page.
The council can arrange advertising on the back of car parking tickets.
The council is a member of the Parking and Traffic Regulations Outside London (PATROL) Adjudication Joint Committee. The Joint Committee publishes an Annual Statement of Accounts which is subject to External Audit and the arrangements can be found on the Patrol website.