General   (General discussion, talk about anything.)

Peter the centre of Ashton consists of three roads basically making a triangle in the middle of this triangle is what was the market which now is a car park. Under this new plan it is intended to build shops/work units over half of the car park and plant trees dotted about over the other half.Also parking is used for the local doctors surgeries/clinic which does not have any parking facilities except a few disabled spaces. If you go down to the car park now after 9-00am you will be lucky to find a car parking space. I have asked how many spaces will be lost to this new scheme and where do the cars park afterwards NO REPLY TO THIS QUESTION The town centre is gridlocked at the best of times has a lot of the traffic is HGV's coming along the A58 and not all from the industrial estate at the Three Sisters. There are plans to extend behind the three Sisters and build another industrial estate adding to the traffic going through Ashton. So the main issues are Where are the new car parks going to be once these proposed units go onto the market and how to reduce the amount of traffic flow through the town The market car park is free parking and unlimited parking the other places to park are pay and display or limited parking times including the supermarkets