My parking costs have now risen 400 per cent
I am writing to express my concern and frustration at the new visitor parking system introduced this week by B&NES Council.
Having had a few conversations with the council regarding this and getting a very unsatisfactory response I feel the need to take this further.
The new system has moved from a simple one hour minimum parking system to four hour minimum parking permits. We still have to log on online or via a phone call so no difference there.
As a therapist working from home I see people during the week for about an hour at a time. Today I saw four clients. Where I would usually use up four hours of electronic parking permits, today I was forced to use 16 hours. Four hours for each client. This seems absolutely ridiculous, the cost for my parking permits has effectively gone up 400 per cent. There is a drop-down menu of time options on the parking site that begins at four hours. Why is it not possible to make these one hour units or two- hour units?
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I have spoken directly to the company that runs the parking system and they told me they can easily make available one hour permits through their system.
B&NES Council will not make these available as a choice to its residents. Why not? I have heard of many other people in a similar situation using up large quantities of parking time for short visits from friends and family.
Christian Dunham DHP HPD MNCH(reg) AfSFH ECBS Lower Bristol Road, Bath
5 Comments
by rogerh3
Saturday, March 23 2013, 1:24PM
“Complain to your ward councillors, who'll be after your vote in two years.
http://tinyurl.com/bz25wpa
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by lordgeous
Friday, March 22 2013, 11:59AM
“Totally agree. i too work from home with many short short stay visitors. Its less the cost thats the problem, more the fact of running out of our annual allowance. What do we do then?”
by BV_BV
Friday, March 22 2013, 10:33AM
“Totally agree with Roger. The council are taking money by making people pay for something they cannot use. Is it legal?”
by rogerh3
Friday, March 22 2013, 9:54AM
“Even the Council's arguments for adopting this absurd and unnecessary system of four-hour blocks make no sense. It argues that 70% or so book more than four hours but so what? Leaving aside the interests of the minority who don't, even if you normally book for five or six hours at a time you're still penalised by now having to pay for eight hours.”
by BV_BV
Thursday, March 21 2013, 11:20PM
“The costs have risen by 300% surely. Be that as it may, the parking at the Sports Centre in Bath should also be reviewed and improved in two ways. Firstly there should be a 90 minute slot for parking, which would allow people time to get changed and showered after their activity (which we are encouraged to do). The parking slots jump from one hour to two hours which is too short or too long.
The parking machine should also dispense change. I had £2 and a £1 coin - not quite enough for two hours so I put £2 in and pressed the green button. The ticket arrives but no change! I have therefore paid for additional time over the hour (15 minutes worth pro rata), but I am not permitted to use that time. Can this be classified as theft if you cannot get your money back when you have overpaid?”