Parking ban call
Date published: 11 January 2010
Greater Manchester Health Commission wants a ban on parents parking outside schools in a bid to curb child obesity.
It wants residents–only parking around school premises so youngsters can gain exercise by walking or cycling to school, and has sent the recommendations to the Association of Greater Manchester Authorities in the hope that local councils will take up the guidelines.
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