{"id":22690,"date":"2019-02-12T14:00:02","date_gmt":"2019-02-12T14:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/?p=22690"},"modified":"2019-02-12T14:00:02","modified_gmt":"2019-02-12T14:00:02","slug":"newport-traders-say-poor-parking-is-hitting-trade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/cjsnews\/newport-traders-say-poor-parking-is-hitting-trade\/","title":{"rendered":"Newport traders say poor parking is hitting trade"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Illegal parking in Newport city centre is dangerous and harms business, according to local shop owners.<\/strong><!--more--><br \/>\nThe problem has become widespread, attracting complaints from traders and shoppers alike.<br \/>\nJade Shackleton, a hairdresser at Hairspray on Skinner Street, believes that illegal parking in the city centre hurts their business.<br \/>\n\u201cIt\u2019s quite bad, they park all the time around here. They\u2019re constantly blocking the pavement and people can\u2019t get around.<br \/>\n<figure id=\"attachment_22692\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-22692\" style=\"width: 329px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-22692\" src=\"http:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/Newportdigitaledit2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"329\" height=\"439\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-22692\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-22692\" src=\"http:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/Newportdigitaledit2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"329\" height=\"439\" \/><\/noscript> Shop owners say poor parking makes it harder for customers to reach the shops.<\/figcaption><\/figure><br \/>\n&#8220;A lot of clients can\u2019t get in and out of the shop when they park along the side. They block the windows too.\u201d<br \/>\nHer colleague, Giselle Tajaa, echoes her concerns.<br \/>\n\u201cAll the cars park on the street because there\u2019s not many spaces to park in the centre, and it blocks off our business. People don\u2019t come into the salon because the cars are there.\u201d<br \/>\nDean Willetts, who runs the fruit and vegetable stall by Friars Walk Shopping Centre, says his job is harder because of the problems with illegal parking.<br \/>\n\u201cAnyone can park anywhere they like. They\u2019re not giving parking tickets at all, so people just park where they want to park.<br \/>\n&#8220;For the likes of me who work here, when I\u2019ve got to unload and go and do different deliveries, it\u2019s absolutely horrendous because all the loading bays are full of cars and it\u2019s just an absolute nightmare for us.\u201d<br \/>\n<figure id=\"attachment_22704\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-22704\" style=\"width: 473px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-22704\" src=\"http:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/NewportdigitaleditCover.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"473\" height=\"473\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-22704\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-22704\" src=\"http:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/NewportdigitaleditCover.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"473\" height=\"473\" \/><\/noscript> The five councils across Gwent (Blaenau Gwent, Caerphilly, Monmouthshire, Newport and Torfaen) will formally take over Civil Parking Enforcement from the police over the coming months.<\/figcaption><\/figure><br \/>\nParking enforcement will be taken over by Newport City Council from Gwent Police from. July 1st.<br \/>\nIn the meantime, the force say they\u2019re working to tackle the issue, especially before Newport County\u2019s game against Manchester City this weekend.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Illegal parking in Newport city centre is dangerous and harms business, according to local shop owners.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":225,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,6],"tags":[257,290,288,313,159,156,310,95],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-22690","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-latest","category-news","tag-business","tag-cars","tag-newport","tag-parking","tag-police","tag-south-wales","tag-traffic","tag-transport"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.2 - 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