Church Lane Car Park

jessama wrote: Malc London wrote: I found that if no-one is parked near the machine, you can actually collect a free parking ticket without leaving the car. You really are a lazy b****r Malc, can't walk to the ticket machine any more than you can walk to the crossing which isn't quite opposite M&S!!!!! If you are able to reach the ticket machine without leaving your car then you must have a left-hand drive, or, more likely, you are disobeying the arrows and are driving the WRONG WAY!!!

Well, the parking used to be 'free'.  So you never had the admin. grief of walking to a ticket machine, pushing a button, walking back to your car, unlocking it, putting aforesaid sodding little bit of paper on your dash and then going about your real business in CSP. 

No, of course it was never really free - you paid for it through council tax.

Now you still pay council tax AND you pay for parking  AND you're stuffed for extra admin.

I hate my council.

Malc London wrote: big baggles wrote: its free for crying out loud, just press the button and get the ticket..... Not for much longer.

what have you heard malc, what ever bet we will still have to subsidize the car park

What reduction in the Parish part of the Council Tax will there be if CDC is not being paid compensation for not collecting a fee for 1 hour parking?

Buying the car park seems a good idea then our car park will really be ours.  But surely it would still be necessary to charge for parking in order for there to be a fund for upkeep.