Parents frustrated as car park next door is locked

“jiffy just stop your immature pettiness the actual fact is your butting you big nose in on something you know nothing about just because they print it in the paper it doesn't mean all the facts are here if you do not have a child in the school and have not seen the havoc and commotion outside the school then please pipe down and yes i have heard of a raincoat but id rather take my car thanks and also i bet if a traveller site was requested at that car park they would probably have more luck than ourselves”

“Jiffy have u thought how dangerous it might be for them to walk!. Silly me to use the words Jiffy and thought in the same sentence lol.

BTW why do u think children attending Welsh language school get treated any differently, apart from the fact they are mostly taught in older more run down schools.”

“Neathboy234 - Have you thought how dangerous it would be to allow primary schoolchildren to drive to and from school ?”

“It is a crazy situation where we have schools without adequate parking. Would we build a supermarket without a car park, of course not.”

“Rosemary1959 - How about parents of children who attend a Welsh language school stop thinking they're a special case and should be treated differently to children at ordinary schools”

“Jiffy - lets face it, men should be the breadwinners, women should stay at home and raise responsible children, children should be free to walk to school unharmed. What would be the result - Husbands who were able to earn a decent wage for a decent days work (and could afford clothing of exceptional standards to protect our child from all elements), wives who didn't have to rush off to work to supplement the income in the house, and children who were well supervised and good mannered. But this is the real world, so remove your rose tinted glasses and let's start looking at other ways to solve this parking problem eg let parents use the car parking space at a financial cost.”

“Poor kid. His parents haven't heard of raincoats.”

“in reply to hobbles - "Try walking to school" i take my 5 year old by car in the morning and walk him home in the afternoon the journey takes me 5 mins by car and half hour to walk how is it fair to walk my child in the awful weather we have for half hour in the pouring rain only for him to remain in school for hours soaked through and cold get in the real world it is winter weather out there and its not as though were asking for a car park to be built there a unused one attached to the school its not a unreasonable thing to ask for”

“To those who suggest walking - Rather than be a scrounger on benefits I work. I finish/start just in time to get me to/from the school, if I had to catch a bus or park at home and walk I would lose a minimum of 5 hours per week in wages- thats nearly £45-£50 pounds a week. As for leaving the children to walk any distant, can you 100% guarantee the safety of my 4 year old! Thought not! We not asking for the carpark to be scot free, but a nominal fee would more that give the council their moneys worth. They can send traffic wardens to book us, so they can give a man a job for two hours in the morning and two hours in the afternoon - thats twenty hours work and they would more than make their money back. But as usual it will be some penpusher who doesn't live in the real world who will make the decision.”

“In reply to jimmy122- as parents, all we want to do is take our small children to/from school safely. I agree that parking on double yellow and zig zag lines is unacceptable, but opposite the school, off the main road, is where most of the tickets have been issued on single yellow lines. It's only twice a day, 20 mins in the morning and 20 mins in the afternoon-so why make such a big deal out of it?
The most frustrating thing is that there's a car park next to the school, unused, which could possibly hold up to 200 cars. This gate is opened all day, apart from school pick up an drop off times, when someone comes along and padlocks the gate??????”