Carpark closure causes local chaos
Cemetery Road South Carpark.
Salford City Council have closed a carpark on Cemetery Road South, Swinton.
For many years now, Cemetery Road South in Swinton has been home to a small carpark - owned by Salford City Council and used daily by the local community and businesses.
On Monday 21st July 2025, Salford Council placed notices around the carpark warning users that it would be permanently closing in 2 weeks time (Mon 4th August).
The notice read that ‘all individuals, businesses, garages and other entities with vehicles currently stored or parked within the aforementioned car park are hereby required to remove all such vehicles no later than 23:59 hours on Sunday, 3rd August 2025’.
There would be a release charge of £180 for those who failed to comply with the notice. They also stated that there will be no pedestrian or vehicle access permitted after this time and any access will be considered as trespass and could evolve to legal proceedings.
Carpark closure notice.
The carpark is in constant use each day and will undoubtedly be a loss to those who use it. Without this carpark in operation, there are little spaces for cars to park given the gated access to peoples sites and yellow lines all around the area.
In recent years, the carpark has become a hotspot for fly tipping, however this isn’t the only reason that they decided to permanently close.
A spokesperson from Salford City Council said: “We have made a difficult decision to permanently close the car park from Monday 4 August. The area was frequent for fly-tipping and people could not park properly as businesses were using it for storage. All these issues were causing concern in the community.”
Local garages have been using the carpark to store the cars they are working on during the day as parking is minimal and the carpark is just across the road. They have been contacted for a comment.
The statement went on to say that “Works will be carried out in the short term to prevent access to the site. The longer term future of the site park will be considered in detail in due course.”
Boulders are currently in place to prevent access to the site and the shrubbery across the front has been cut back.
Inside of the carpark. Shrubbery has been cut back and litter cleared up.
All the litter from the fly tipping has also been cleared.
It doesn’t seem likely that anything will happen on the site too soon - it’s now just a waiting game.
