Decision Maker: Cabinet
Decision status: Recommmend Forward to Council
Is Key decision?: Yes
Is subject to call in?: Yes
Decisions:
Cabinet
considered the report of the head of economy, leisure and property.
This reviewed the council’s car park fees and charges and set
out options for 2014/15.
Cabinet
considered:
- reducing the price of parking permits – Cabinet decided
against this option at this time;
- extending the length of free parking to three hours –
given the scale of the cost to the council, Cabinet rejected this
option at this time;
- extending the differential pricing policy so that car park fees
were varied depending on their location – Cabinet considered
that the existing pricing schedule included differential pricing
and was working effectively and therefore extending differential
pricing further was unnecessary;
- reducing the
cost of excess charges (parking fines) – Cabinet agreed to
reduce the cost from £50 to £40 if the fine was paid
within 10 working days. Although this
would reduce income from excess charges, the council should not
rely of this income;
- introducing a
cashless payment system in car parks (pay by mobile phone) –
Cabinet asked the officers to investigate this through a pilot
scheme as soon as possible. If
successful, this would be introduced in the council’s car
parks;
- introducing spaces to charge electric vehicles – Cabinet noted the
provision for this in other car parks and agreed to not introduce
spaces for electric vehicle charging at this time.
Cabinet
approved the fees and charges for 2014/15 in line with its
decisions above.
RESOLVED: to
(a) approve the car park
fees and charges for 2014/15 as set out in appendix 1 to the
report, subject to reducing the cost of excess charge notices
(parking fines) to £40 if paid within 10 working days;
and
(b) carry out a pilot scheme of cashless payments for
car parking.
Report author: John Backley
Publication date: 11/12/2013
Date of decision: 06/12/2013
Decided at meeting: 06/12/2013 - Cabinet
Effective from: 14/12/2013
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