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Letter: What Shropshire councillors giveth, they also taketh away
Monday 13th September 2010, 6:44AM BST.
Letter: Are Shropshire councillors unaware of the irony of doling out grants to revitalise market towns at the same time as they are jeopardising those same towns with car parking charges?
How about the council gifting each council their car park instead, and letting the local council make the decision on whether to charge?
Andrew Whyte
Shrewsbury
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Question: is it right, particularly in allegedly dire financial times, for people to expect local authorities to provide free on- and off-street storage for private property (i.e. cars)?
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Yes Steve it is Right! If they wish for Shrewsbury to remain or become a thriving town then some free parking must be provided. People vote with their feet (or cars in this case) and use the satellite business parks or travel to nearby towns to shop.
If you want more charity shops then feel free to carry on.
These high parking charges were in place prior to the current dire financial climate!
Correct but I believe that council provide free parking for their staff at our expense!
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In response to Steve (1)
I think the answer to that is whether a vast amount of local jobs rely on the public’s access to said storage and the affordability of such…
How many shops are closed or in the hands of charities in Shrewsbury Town Centre? 30%? 35%? Somewhere in that region.
So: the council raises an extra couple of hundred thousand off the car parks, but loses all of those lucrative business rates. Compound that with then also having to pay out housing benefit and the lost council tax revenue from all of those former employees now having to sign on because their employers cant afford the ridiculous rates charged by the council coupled with the steadily reducing footfall business and I’m afraid it doesnt take Vince Cable to realise that the books arent balancing somewhere…
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Whilst I agree that restrictions on parking are certainly no help to small and medium sized businesses that are struggling to continue trading, your comment suggests that there are no other factors to consider.
In fact, you make that point very clearly when you chose Shrewsbury Town Centre as an example. A location that has good transport links with local towns via rail and bus services, three park and ride facilities for motorists, as well as town centre car parks, all of which has been in effect for years, presumably before 35% of shops were vacant (and I’m not even sure about that number).
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