Traffic Wardens

[Guest]

Watch out everyone who uses a car as the new Allerdale militia (aka traffic wardens) will start patroling the streets of Keswick on Monday 13th October. Be afraid............. be very afraid.

This won't bother the visitors who use the car parks but will bother all of us who park in places we know to be safe and convenient...........

[Guest]

I have seen a TV advertisement put out by Allerdale warning that the wardens will be about! I suppose they will have to issue a lot of tickets just to cover the costs of th advert.

[Dunsford]

Sorry to have to disagree but I have been looking forward to their return. Now we may see an end to people, many local who park anywhere they like knowing that nothing will happen. I am fed up with cars parked on our streets on yellow lines. Many of the places where these cars are dumped are dangerous. What we need is for locals as well as visitors to use the car parks in town. There are plenty of them and are reasonably priced.

[Guest]

I would like to know who made the decision to repaint all the yellow lines around our lovely town. They have created a real eyesore with this vandalism. This is just like when the County Council decided to ruin the area around Buttermere by painting yellow lines everywhere.

I am pleased to see that our mayor is trying to find out why this 'work' was carried out with so little respect to Keswickians.

[Guest]

The way they are going for both locals and guests they should make £1,000,000, before the town become devoid of tourists. Cumbria magazine has already picked up on disgruntled keswick visitors. A lot could be staying in Yorkshire next year!

[Guest]

Now we have our patrol of wardens, is keswick a better place?

[Guest]

local Wrote:Now we have our patrol of wardens, is keswick a better place?

Keswick can't get any better.

[Guest]

Welcome to Keswick – NOT!

I and my family have been regular visitors to the Keswick area for nearly 30 years. However, we will now be visiting areas other than Keswick in the future due to a recent incident which resulted in my receiving a parking notice for parking two inches over the white line – in an empty car park on a cold Winters afternoon!!!

I will pay the fixed penalty notice (reluctantly) but have decided that this ridiculous situation should be brought to the attention of:

- Other visitors to Keswick – beware the car parking attendants!

- Local businesses in Keswick – are you aware you are losing business?
(See the Allerdale Council web site forum)

- Allerdale Council – do the receipts from car parking cover the costs of the Parking Services Department?


I received the Parking Notice in the Lakeside Car Park on the afternoon of Friday 14th January. I had paid for a ticket and was amazed to see the penalty notice on my windscreen on returning to my car. The car park must be capable of taking 500 cars but there were about 15 cars parked there that cold afternoon.

To receive a penalty notice for not parking exactly between the white lines is absolutely crazy. When I raised an objection with the Parking Services Department I was met with the typical bureaucratic response of “rules are rules and must be obeyed”. This, together with the almost military style of the car parking attendants’ uniforms is not what I would call welcoming!!

Maybe in the summer the number of visitors is such that this problem can be ignored. I would have thought that Keswick would try harder to attract visitors in the winter months and that this problem needs to be addressed.

Meanwhile – we will be going to Wales or Yorkshire where hopefully we will receive a warmer welcome.