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Councillor Helen Fisher, cabinet member for highways, said: “We’re introducing a strategy designed to improve the turnover of on-street parking spaces in town centres, market towns and village high streets which will help local businesses and make enforcement easier.
Fantasy policies are the new way 'forward'.With several town centre car parks now free for 2 hours (or, in the case of Chell Road, eligible for a Sainsbury's refund), I'm not sure that charging for on-street parking is going to help local businesses.
And, given that most of these spaces are currently free for just 20 or 30 minutes, how is it going to improve the turnover of on-street parking spaces.
This has been posted in the Baswich Community Group thread (??!!??):
For the avoidance of doubt, I was not being entirely serious.It only affects the Baswich community as they're too old and too lazy to walk/cycle into town...
Easy
Every parking bay in Stafford has a value
The mean value is £700 per bay per annum per tbottom
I would have said £701+.....
I am shocked by your appalling cynicism.
You do have to wonder how much net income it will actually generate, having purchased machines and whatever else extra costs are incurred. Is an assessment of the expected effects available?
Any idea on how this will "improve the turnover of town-centre parking spaces"?
At face value, it looks like it would generally make it less likely that you might find one vacant.
These spaces are often used by the Blue Badge brigade, to reduce the distances on foot, and seem likely to become rather less available for them under these proposals.