Parking charge increase on the way to Burnley (From Burnley and Pendle Citizen)
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Parking charge increase on the way to Burnley
4:00pm Monday 28th January 2013 in Burnley
By Peter Magill, Chief reporter
NEW parking charges are set to be introduced in Burnley town centre — with motorists paying short visits bearing the brunt.
Short-stay car parks will see the one-hour and under fee rise from 80p to 90p, and the one to two hour charge increase from £1.40 to £1.50.
And parking for more than three hours will attract a charge of £5.50, instead of £5.00.
But the two to three hours banding, for £2, will remain the same.
Coun Mark Townsend, resources cabinet member for the Labour-controlled authority, said at a recent council meeting that the move was designed to stimulate footfall in the high street.
“We have been trying to get people to stay longer in the town centre so we have tried to spread the cost out,” he said.
But opposition Liberal Democrats claimed that freezing the car parking charges com-pletely was a better stimulus to encourage shoppers into Burnley.
Deputy leader Coun Margaret Lishman said that the administration had already left a ‘trail of broken promises’ with its spending plans.
Single visits to the Finsley Gate No. 2 and Centenary Way car parks will increase from £3.50 to £3.70.
Park users will also be hit by the shake-up.
The Towneley Hall, Riverside and Barwise car parks are currently chargeable between 10am and 5pm.
But the hours have been altered so it is now 8am to 10pm.
All of the new car parking charges will come into force in Burnley from Friday, February 1.
Comments(17)
Rose Rouge
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4:43pm Mon 28 Jan 13
hi everyone
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4:58pm Mon 28 Jan 13
burner
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5:33pm Mon 28 Jan 13
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I have heard some foolish things said in my lifetime !!!! but that . . . . . !!! He really said that if you charge people more for a service they can obtain for FREE in some places, then more people will want to pay for that service ????????????????????
??????????????????? Beyond belief !!!
Interocitor
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6:52pm Mon 28 Jan 13
2 for 5p
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7:08pm Mon 28 Jan 13
Free parking and lots of it, no tramps or beggers, no traffic jams, no charity shops, cheaper prices,
I don't see any point going to the high street anymore especially if you have to pay for the pleasure.
burner
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7:17pm Mon 28 Jan 13
rggraham1947
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8:18pm Mon 28 Jan 13
psch
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10:16pm Mon 28 Jan 13
retsofad
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12:28am Tue 29 Jan 13
other council are trying to put up charges. charging the disabled to park on their town carparks, disabled drivers have a blue badge with 3 hrs free parking but only on DD yellow lines causing traffic congestion thats why councils have to provide 6% of spaces for disabled drivers remember that a disabled person takes longer to get round doing their shoping than an abled bodied person it's time ALL drivers hit back at these outrages prices and refused to pay.
midas
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7:34am Tue 29 Jan 13
Kevin, Colne
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8:34am Tue 29 Jan 13
For local government the future is looking extremely difficult and they are attempting to exploit every source of short-term revenue available to them; even if that weakens other aspects of the locality. Increasing car parking charges is an obvious target.
It’s a great shame that as a country we largely squandered our inheritance of North Sea oil and sold off the family silver in the way that we did – our utilities.
Have we learned nothing from the board game ‘Monopoly’ that was designed to get the message across that ownership of assets – who the landlords are – really matters?
The public utilities had been carefully built and nurtured by our forefathers in local government and they were immensely proud of what they had achieved – and justly so.
If we had converted them to quasi public-private enterprises recognising their strategic importance with the state owning a golden share preventing them from falling into foreign ownership then municipalities could still have had a stake in them.
Local councils would be enjoying a valuable dividend income that would be growing in real terms; and this source of revenue would be independent from central government.
In places like Burnley right now that money could be put to very good use.
Moreover local authorities collectively would be significant shareholders and could vote en bloc to temper the worst excesses of corporate, managerial behaviour.
I know that I have daft ideas, and this ranks as one of the daftest, probably and I'm not too sure how we could get from where we are now to the situation I describe above.
From where I'm sitting the mainstream political parties give every impression of being stuck in a rut and in thrall to ideas from ‘think tanks’ that have agendas other than the well-being of the citizenry.
rggraham1947
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8:59am Tue 29 Jan 13
Kevin, Colne wrote:Some sense here but you're fighting yesterday's battles. You can't turn back the clock; you have to start from where we are now.
The travails of the High Street have been well documented and the forces at work are exceedingly strong. For local government the future is looking extremely difficult and they are attempting to exploit every source of short-term revenue available to them; even if that weakens other aspects of the locality. Increasing car parking charges is an obvious target. It’s a great shame that as a country we largely squandered our inheritance of North Sea oil and sold off the family silver in the way that we did – our utilities. Have we learned nothing from the board game ‘Monopoly’ that was designed to get the message across that ownership of assets – who the landlords are – really matters? The public utilities had been carefully built and nurtured by our forefathers in local government and they were immensely proud of what they had achieved – and justly so. If we had converted them to quasi public-private enterprises recognising their strategic importance with the state owning a golden share preventing them from falling into foreign ownership then municipalities could still have had a stake in them. Local councils would be enjoying a valuable dividend income that would be growing in real terms; and this source of revenue would be independent from central government. In places like Burnley right now that money could be put to very good use. Moreover local authorities collectively would be significant shareholders and could vote en bloc to temper the worst excesses of corporate, managerial behaviour. I know that I have daft ideas, and this ranks as one of the daftest, probably and I'm not too sure how we could get from where we are now to the situation I describe above. From where I'm sitting the mainstream political parties give every impression of being stuck in a rut and in thrall to ideas from ‘think tanks’ that have agendas other than the well-being of the citizenry.
hasslem hasslem
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1:11pm Tue 29 Jan 13
midas wrote:or stop going to burnley tc altogether and just visit the out-of-town retail stores and shop there on free, flat, easy access, non urine polluted car parks.
what, another 10p to park!!! That's it I'm going to drive an extra half hour to Accrington, it's free to park there! Doh!
councils continue to implement the death of a thousand cuts on town centre traders.
midas
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1:46pm Tue 29 Jan 13
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If you cannot afford to pay £2 for car parking than you aren't really going to be spending lots of money in the shops!
rggraham1947
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4:01pm Tue 29 Jan 13
midas wrote:If you think parking charges are going towards reducing your council tax you're totally naive; it goes towards keeping "equality and inclusion" departments going and implementing their pet schemes. £2 for car parking is £2 less spent in shops and £2 more into the grasping maw of bureaucracy.
but their not free! you have to drive there and therefore spend more on petrol rather than paying money to the Council which in turn reduces the amount needed to be paid in council tax. . If you cannot afford to pay £2 for car parking than you aren't really going to be spending lots of money in the shops!
midas
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9:29am Wed 30 Jan 13
rggraham1947 wrote:Yes of course it does, meanwhile in the adult world we might have someone who can produce some evidence that shows a correlation between car park charges, footfall and spend in shops.
midas wrote: but their not free! you have to drive there and therefore spend more on petrol rather than paying money to the Council which in turn reduces the amount needed to be paid in council tax. . If you cannot afford to pay £2 for car parking than you aren't really going to be spending lots of money in the shops!If you think parking charges are going towards reducing your council tax you're totally naive; it goes towards keeping "equality and inclusion" departments going and implementing their pet schemes. £2 for car parking is £2 less spent in shops and £2 more into the grasping maw of bureaucracy.
carrman2 says...
4:34pm Mon 28 Jan 13