Parking Fees in Alsager

We were at a meeting last night to hear how Cheshire East plan to implement car parking charges on the main car park in Alsager. Typical of politicians they had all of the answers but not to the questions that were asked which were specific to Alsager. The meeting was in a the local leisure centre games hall so the acoustics were awful (no fault of the leisure centre).
Points were put forward by the residents of Alsager on why there should be no parking fees:-
a. people will park in side streets and cause congestion.
b. the car park is as much for social activities (U3A, Library, Civic Centre etc) as it is for shopppers
c. If parking fees are applied shoppers and visitors will go to Newcastle, Tesco, Asda, Crewe etc as it will be more convenient to do all of their shopping there rather than in Alsager meaning that Alsager shops (most of which are small independents) will shut.
The council seemed to use larger towns such as Chester, Crewe and Macclesfield as reasons for fees. But they are not Alsager. Whilst Alsager may have the population of a town the shopping centre is definitely village.
But Cheshire East need money and admitted that they were looking to make a profit from the parking fees.
It seems like bad management to me that on the day that Cheshire East took over control of the council:-
1. The website was updated immediately
2. ALL the council vehicles had the new Cheshire East livery.
3. It seems that the majority of council vehicles (in Alsager) are new, not just the livery.
When we worked in industry livery etc was done on the roll. I.e. the livery was changed when the vehicle went in for a service, or had other work done on it or was replaced, thus spreading costs.
And another thing.
Whilst planning to charge for car parking (taking on the one hand) they are advertising whio they want ot support the local communities and shops. To such an extent that they will part fund (50:50) structural shop improvements.
Why not save that money and not have car parking. In that way more people will visit Alsager, shops will do better and be able to fund their own shop improvements.

Once again this reinforces my belief that ALL politicians/councils are at best incompetent and at worst - well - I won't use bad language on this blog.
If anybody agrees that parking fees should not be applied to Alsager please write/e-mail or even phone Cheshire East council