Owestry all-day parking to rise by £1
Thursday 13th January 2011, 6:15PM GMT.
Oswestry Town Council has increased all-day parking charges on its town centre car parks by £1, amid fears a larger rise would have hit workers hard.
The council had been recommended to increase the over six hour charge from £5 to £8 by its task and finish group.
But last night councillors voted to increase it by just £1 meaning it will now cost £6.
To balance the books they agreed to put an extra 10p on the proposed increase for drivers parking in the Central car park for up to an hour. This will now rise from 40p to 60p.
The council is responsible for Oswestry’s Central, Horsemarket and Smithfield Street car parks.
Councillor Chris Schof- ield said the £3 increase would have penalised workers in the town, costing them an extra £15 a week.
Councillor Betty Gull, chairman of the markets and car parks committee, said the town centre car parks were supposed to be for short stay only with the Oak Street car park, now run by Shropshire Council, designated a long stay park.
“I can remember when prices for all day were cheaper and shoppers found it hard to find a space on Central Car Park because of all the workers,” she said.
Only 1,184 of the all day tickets were sold last year and Councillor Saffron Rai- ney said no one would buy them if they went up to £8.
He proposed putting the Central Car Park up to one hour rate up to 60p, while for the other two car parks run by the town council it will be 50p
Councillors put rates on all three car parks to £2 for two to four hours, £3 for four to six hours and £6 for over six hours.
They also agreed for the up to two hours rate for Central and Smithfield Street to be 80p, although this will be 70p on the Horsemarket site.
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£8 to park in Oswestry?? You must be joking. This is going to make it prohibitively expensive for anyone to work there and the death knell for shops. I’m definitely staying away.
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£6 a day to park in Oswestry !! Cheaper to go to Shrewsbury where there is more to do
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These councillors have put the final nail in the coffin for the traders of Oswestry. People outside of the town are already thinking twice about the cost of fuel to and from their homes – extra parking charges will encourage them to shop locally rather than come into town and pay even more to park. I live near Llanfyllin where there are several excellent shops. Supermarkets like Tesco and ASDA provide low priced deliveries to my door – goodbye Oswestry – I can’t afford you any more.
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Its ok – once that supermarket monstrosity is built on the Smithfield (Town Council backed) there will be no need for anyone to go into town and pay charges as the parking at the supermarket will be free and nobody will be bothered to go into town. If the aim of Oswestry Town Council is to kill the town centre off, they’re getting there. Oh well, I suppose they can concentrate on more important things like flower displays/hanging baskets then.
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Oak Street Car Park is cheap, but sadly lots of people just can’t be bothered to walk all the way into town…yes, that’s a few hundred yards.
Frankly I sometimes think we don’t know how lucky we all are. We experience nothing but bountiful choice in the shops which are open to us practically seven days a week. We don’t even have to carry our own shopping home – as David says it can be delivered to our door.
Just stop and be thankful for what we have got, £1 increase in parking considered. Millions of people across the world don’t have it so good.
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