Castletown Parking

[henryscat]

There won't be as the station car park is being done without planning permission so no planning application in the public domain. The railway have some exemptions from planning requirements when developing on "operational land" in their ownership.

Are the plans for the car park online anyone know?

 

[My Name is URL]

Cheers Henrys Cat, very strange but top knowledge from you knowing that!

 

[Gramaisc]

The railway have some exemptions from planning requirements when developing on "operational land" in their ownership.

That, perhaps, made some sense when it was all in public ownership, but it seems a bit inappropriate for what are now in affect, state-subsidised private enterprises.

 

[henryscat]

That, perhaps, made some sense when it was all in public ownership, but it seems a bit inappropriate for what are now in affect, state-subsidised private enterprises.

Yep, state subsidised to five times the cost of what British Rail cost us....

Stafford station car park is being funded by Network Rail (virtually public owned) who recover their cost over a period of time by increasing the cost to Virgin West Coast Trains of leasing the car park from them. In turn Virgin charge everyone 6 quid a day to park and do very nicely thank you...

 

[cookie_monster]

In turn Virgin charge everyone 6 quid a day to park and do very nicely thank you...

thats a bargain!!!

its way more than that at the station car park in sheffield...granted its multi storey, manned 24hrs a day and cctv'd up to the hilt. but thats not the point!


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[db]

In turn Virgin charge everyone 6 quid a day to park and do very nicely thank you...

thats a bargain!!!

its way more than that at the station car park in sheffield...granted its multi storey, manned 24hrs a day and cctv'd up to the hilt. but thats not the point!

yeah, it always makes me chuckle when people complain about parking charges in stafford.. one of the reasons i hated sheffield was that i became a complete recluse, because one couldn't simply pop in to town for a look round on a nice day or things like that.. "popping into town" entailed a minimum half-hour drive in dense traffic, then paying about a tenner for a couple of hours parking

and don't start on at me about public transport.. you know i refuse to mix with the proletariat!

 

[Gramaisc]

That's true, there are a lot of things wrong with public transport, but the worst thing is the public themselves. I've only ever been on two buses in Stafford and that was enough for me. I used to use the train every two or three months, before some half-wit got at the timetable, and even then I used to be careful to check for football and rugby fixtures in an effort to reduce the level of imbecility that I was exposed to.

 

[cookie_monster]

and don't start on at me about public transport.. you know i refuse to mix with the proletariat!

but i live on the tram route and you get a better class of person on them than on the buses.


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[70-plus]

Has anyone heard any more about the Castletown Parking scheme. Everything seems to have gone very quiet on this issue.

 

[Andreas Rex]

Has anyone heard any more about the Castletown Parking scheme. Everything seems to have gone very quiet on this issue.

Yeah I was thinking about this yesterday, as I noticed that Mark Heenan had logged on. I know I asked the 'What's going on?!' question only a couple of days after Mark was elected, however it's been a few weeks now and it would be reassuring to at least have an update as to the current state of play, even if it's just to say that X can't happen until Y is sorted, etc...

 

[Andreas Rex]

I've just written a fairly lengthy email to Mark Heenan covering this and a number of other topics. Hopefully i'll receive a response soon, and will post the details when I get them.

 

[70-plus]

Great idea Oh King Andreas - look forward to the reply.

 

[tek-monkey]

Give the guy a chance, its not like a politician to promise things and not deliver

 

[Andreas Rex]

Oh King Andreas

Arf arf! Alas, I am no king. Just a mere pauper.

 

[70-plus]

Then come the revolution you can be kind of the paupers!

 

[70-plus]

OOhs meant king of the paupers!

 

[Gramaisc]

OOhs meant king of the paupers!

In your own posts you will find "edit" - between "report" and "quote" in the bottom right-hand corner. I have to do it all the time. Somehow I just can't see the post clearly until I've pressed submit. Just a thought...

 

[70-plus]

Andreas - have you heard anything about Castletown parking scheme. They begin building station car park in October which means nowhere for commuters to park in the meantime. Did Mark Heenan get back to you.

 

[John Marwood]

A huge site owned by St Modwen exists at the rear of Castle Works - Maybe this is the answer,level it and zone it for parking.

 

[basil]

I have already mooted this one a couple of months back and was informed that it was not a goer......