Residents on an estate next to Manchester Airport have spoken of their relief as double yellow lines, residents' parking permits, traffic wardens and the winter months have all helped them to reclaim their street.
Earlier this year, the Manchester Evening News reported how residents on Shadowmoss Road were plagued by selfish parking from travellers, airport visitors and plane spotters, blocking drives, dumping cars and leaving litter.
But, a cocktail of measures put in place to ease the situation in this part of Wythenshawe appears to be working - along with the passing of peak flying season.
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On a freezing cold winter's day in December, there are no blocked driveways, the 'residents only' bays are empty of even residents' cars, and the streets are pin drop quiet - that is, until the roar of an aeroplane thunders overhead.
Resident John Messer says: "It has not been as bad since summer. Sometimes in the school holidays there are cars parked here but I think sometimes it is people going to the airport pub as they only have a small car park. It's not been a problem."
NHS worker Maria Faulkner, who works in Wythenshawe Hospital, has lived on the estate for eight years in her former granddad's house. She says planes 'kept him company', and she didn't mind the plane spotters so much.
"It's not a problem," she says. "In fact I think it's a bit of a shame - people like to come and look at the planes."
Marylin Ivanova, 31, a stay-at-home mum to an 11-month-old baby, has lived on Shadowmoss Road for eight years, and credits residents parking permits with making a 'really bad' situation 'a lot better'.
Meanwhile Dave Sutton, 61, describes how drivers stopped leaving vehicles after a 'few cars got towed away'.
Howard McDermott, 64, a driver, has lived on Shadowmoss Road since 2005. He's not sure it's over.
"Because the tram stop is across the road I do get a few people parking across my driveway. People park up and drop people off who then get on the tram for £1.40 to the airport - it's cheaper than paying the airport car parking.
"It's been a lot more quiet, but people can't afford to fly at the moment and it is winter," he says, "who knows what it will be like next summer - we will have to wait and see."
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