Letter: Parking nightmare must be addressed before next Christmas

Arrived at 9.30am, so initially no issues parking when M & S opened at 9.45am as usual on Sundays. The parking attendant was around checking blue badge displays in disabled parking, but by the time I left at around 10.15am the car park was totally full. People had flooded to the retail park and were still driving on to it, but there was no parking left, and cars were obstructing lanes all over as they were waiting for cars to leave so they could park! It was literally one car on, one car off! Cars were also obstructing parking bay boundaries, by parking over them. It was a total nightmare. The parking attendant should be displaying an entrance sign that the car park was full, instructing any obstructing vehicles to move so access wasn't blocked. It definitely needs to be managed next Christmas, as opposed to the free-for-all calamity I saw there.

Kate Jones

Chesterfield

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