ARGYLL and Bute Council plans to clamp down on poor parking in parts of Campbeltown town centre.
The proposal is to introduce waiting and loading restrictions on sections of Bolgam Street, Union Street, Burnside Street and Burnbank Place.
The restrictions are required to alleviate parking at junctions and allow better visibility and improve road safety,’ the council said in its formal notice; people have until August 1 to object to the idea.
The news has been welcomed already by some; at Kintyre Motors on Bolgam Street they sometimes find they can’t get the breakdown truck out of the yard because people have parked so close to their entrance. At neighbouring Robert Leishman and Son vehicle body repairs, Brian Leishman said: ‘It’s got so bad now that the dustbin lorry can’t get down the street, they park at the end and take the bins back to it. If that can’t get in, then a fire engine or an ambulance can’t either. We have trouble if people bring cars to us that have to arrive on a trailer.
‘If they are driveable we arranged to have them dropped off around the corner.’
