Visitor permits
This is an open letter to Chris Major, head of parking services.
Thanks for your letter of March 4 giving – at very short notice – details of the new MiPermit scheme.
It all seems sensible until one reads that visitor permits are available only as a minimum of four hours which, for a number of regular visitors to our house, means that we suffer a massive rise in the cost of parking permits (not to mention that we will go through our annual entitlement much more quickly).
Your letter states that records show that the majority of visitors currently stay over four hours. A majority could be 50.1 per cent, hardly a resounding mandate for such a move, and the figures are almost certainly distorted by those who forget to deactivate the visitor permit immediately the visitor leaves.
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Please may I request that you revisit this aspect of the scheme. It seems a very harsh way of replacing at extra cost to the residents something that was designed, as I recall, as an alternative to one-day paper permits.
Martin Norman Lyncombe Hill Bath
Comments
by lordgeous
Tuesday, March 19 2013, 6:28PM
“"Just mirroring what others have said elsewhere in the paper. Please rethink this minimum 4 hours parking business, and also having to guess in advance how long visitors are going to require. I work from home and like other residents I have many short stay visitors which will eat into my allowance in no time at all and it means I'm also paying for lots of time time I dont actually use. Additionally no-one in my area received any sort of notification from the council about the recent changes. I just happened to chance on it in the Chronicle. I only access the parking services online which must cost the council nothing!"
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