The neighbourhood that's sick and tired of being 'the car park of Manchester'

A campaign has been launched to tell motorists that Ardwick is ‘not the car park of the city’. The campaign, supported by a councillor in the area, was launched in December because residents in the suburb ‘have had enough’, activists say.

The group — called Not The Car Park Of The City (NTCP) — says there has been an ‘influx of city centre commuters, university staff and students, and hospital staff and visitors’ parking on residential roads ‘in recent years’.

There are also concerns about the proposed development which could come to the area that would see a 12-storey, 14-storey, and 29-storey buildings housing thousands of students — plus a nine-storey science building — built on Upper Brook Street.

Now, NTCP says it is ‘advocating for viable solutions to alleviate the parking burden on local residents’. READ MORE: 'It cost me £17 to park for three hours in Manchester, motorists are being priced out of the city centre' READ MORE: The latest house prices in every Greater Manchester postcode area - from most to least expensive “My house off Justin Close has parking spaces at front and back, and they’re always occupied, mostly by visitors who drop their litter and sit there, engines running with loud music pumping,” one resident, who gave his name as Steve, said. “This is not only an inconvenience to residents with permits, unable to park — like my disabled neighbour who often has to park away from her house and walk over uneven terrain with a stick — but it also creates a great deal of stress, particularly in the summer, when one cannot open the windows and my two year old boy can't play in the back garden because of the exhaust fumes.” Steve added that ravers going to a ‘nightclub on Grosvenor Street’ have