Increase parking areas within Graves Park, Sheffield

Help us increase the parking areas within Graves Park, Sheffield.

What's the point of making the park so appealing, and then stopping you from getting in!

Hi, I am a local resident of Norton and I have been working closely with Sheffield Councillor Ian Auckland (Graves Park ward Cllr and Shadow Cabinet ~ including transport) to try and increase the number of parking spaces for the people who would like to visit Graves Park, Sheffield’s largest park.

The car parking at Graves Park is totally inadequate.

With the newly opened large playground and animal farm, there are simply not enough parking spaces to meet the volume of cars that come to visit the park, especially at weekends and in the summer months.

We propose the large grassed area next to the top car park (off Hemsworth Road) could easily be extended to house dozens more cars, with no detrimental effect to the parks vast grassed areas.

This would stop people driving round and around with limited success trying to find a free spot , before driving out of the park and in desperation trying to park on one of the few side roads or on busy Hemsworth Road. Hemsworth Road is a busy main road and can be very dangerous. One side of the road already has double yellow lines and on the other side a high verge. It is used by buses, Lorries and very fast emergency service vehicles. Cars that park on Hemsworth road block the road and reduce the Road to a single lane. I have seen small children wander onto the road, whilst parents have been unloading prams, etc., from the boot of their car. The cars park so tightly together those oncoming cars cannot see between the cars. Also vehicles often drive on the narrow curb on Hemsworth Road to pass each other. This is also very dangerous; not only for the park visitors but to the local residents (some are very elderly and cannot move very quickly).

We love our beautiful park and love visitors to come and enjoy the park, but to what cost?

Please help us do something about the parking within Graves Park.