2021 was a bumper season for Moel Famau country park. Thanks to the health emergency, we were unable to travel far. Instead, when allowed, people holidayed or travelled within the UK only. As a result, there was regular weekend chaos on the Bwlch Pen Barras road. Over the summer, no parking road cones proliferated.
Fast forward two years and we now have the double yellow lines promised us. They wend for approximately two miles along the Bwlch Pen Barras road. It's taken a while and parking anarchy is now actually only limited to bank holidays but chaos there still is.
This is what we've seen seen more recently:
September 2022's Natural Resources WalesANPR installation fox a number of people. This couple were trying to use the machine as a pay-an-display machine when, actually, you need to pay on exit. Needless to day, they got nowhere. They contacted the remote assistance which, they said, was a in their view utterly useless. But our guests had failed to read the 'forest' of instructions properly.
It was a result of the 2021 traffic problems and residents' complaints that in October 2021 Denbighshire published a traffic management consultation. That year, the council had begun extending one of its two car parks, creating an extra 50 spaces.
Yellow lines in March 2023...
... and summer 2021
| 16/9/2022 | ANPR controlled NWR car park upgrade (pay on exit maximum £5) |
| 8/3/2023 | Car parking charges at both DCC car parks (one extended) increased by 50p per day to £2 |
| 13/3/2023 | Road closed for five days to facilitate patching and repairs |
| 20/3/2023 | The installation of double yellow lines across a 2 mile stretch of Bwlch Pen Barras, to improve parking and vehicle flow |
The council has used both yellow and primrose on the road to Moel Famau. There are areas (not here) where the lines just seem to peter out...
September 2022's Natural Resources WalesANPR installation fox a number of people. This couple were trying to use the machine as a pay-an-display machine when, actually, you need to pay on exit. Needless to day, they got nowhere. They contacted the remote assistance which, they said, was a in their view utterly useless. But our guests had failed to read the 'forest' of instructions properly.
