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Review of Parking Fees and Charges 2009/10
Meeting: 20/01/2009 - Cabinet (Item 130)
130 Review of Parking Fees and Charges 2009/10 
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(Cabinet Member with Special Responsibility Councillor Mace)
Report of Corporate Director (Regeneration).
Minutes:
(Cabinet Member with Special Responsibility Councillor Mace)
The Corporate Director (Regeneration) submitted a report asking members to consider the Annual Review of Parking Fees and Charges for 2009/10.
The options, options analysis, including risk assessment, were set out in the report as follows:
The following options for pay and display and public permits have been put forward for consideration. The temporary benefit of the reduced standard rate of VAT from 1st April to 31st December 2009 as outlined in paragraph 2.3 has been taken into account in the Financial Implications section of the report.
Option 1 a
This option is aimed at minimal price increases and achieving the budgetary commitments, but only after allowing for the VAT increase:
Pay and Display
|
Tariff Description |
Current Tariff |
Proposed Tariff |
Additional Income |
|
Increase Up to 1 hour on all car parks |
£0.90 |
£1.00 |
£23,000 |
This option limits the price increases as shown above and assumes that 60% of customers already pay £1.00 as per a sample analysis that has been undertaken. The City Council’s pay and display machines can be either programmed to accept overpayments and issue a pay and display ticket, or to reject incorrect payments and only accept the correct fee and not print a pay and display ticket. The City Council’s machines are programmed to allow the customer to purchase their pay and display ticket.
Total estimated additional income for Option 1 a - £23,000
Option 1 b
This option is aimed at discouraging long stay parking whilst addressing the budgetary commitments:
Pay and Display
|
Tariff Description |
Current Tariff |
Proposed Tariff |
Additional Income |
|
Increase Up to 1 hour on all car parks |
£0.90 |
£1.00 |
£23,000 |
|
Long Stay Car Parks |
|
|
|
|
Increase Up to 3 hours |
£2.00 |
£2.20 |
£15,000 |
|
Increase Over 3 hours (Morecambe) |
£3.00 |
£3.20 |
£4,500 |
|
Increase Up to 5 hours (Lancaster) |
£3.50 |
£3.70 |
£2,000 |
Public Permit Charges
|
Permit Type |
Current Tariff |
Proposed Tariff |
Additional Income |
|
Increase Lancaster and Morecambe General Permit by 15% |
£770.00 |
£885.00 |
£12,200 |
|
Increase Morecambe General Permit by 5% (see Note 1) |
£475.00 |
£500.00 |
£800 |
|
Increase Specific Permit by 15% |
£1,230.00 |
£1,415.00 |
£1,900 |
Note 1: The Morecambe permit will not sustain a 15% increase due to the daily cost of all day long stay parking in Morecambe being £3.00 compared with £6.00 in Lancaster.
This option is directly linked to the Parking Strategy in that it discourages long stay parking. Resistance and reduced sales has been allowed for in calculating the estimated income that is outlined in the table at paragraph 3.2 of the report.
Under this option it is also suggested that officers investigate the introduction of Green Permit options for next year’s review. This would potentially allow price reductions for vehicles with low cubic capacity or low emissions but research would have to be undertaken with other Council’s to gauge the success of this type of scheme and to see how administrative and enforcement arrangements are dealt with.
Total estimated additional income for Option 1 b - ... view the full minutes text for item 130