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Recommendations approved
 
Reasons for recommendations
Due to changes to other car
parks in the town centre there is a need to increase the long stay
provision.
 
Fleet Street car park is
appropriate to be changed as it is suitably proximate to the town
centre to support workers. Shoppers would still benefit from the 1
hour free like they do on all car parks (except Flat Iron) so there
is still an element of short stay for the area.
 
This will be relatively simple
to do, the machine is already set up for long stay so the short
stay program can simply be deleted.
 
The tariff boards already have
the long stay information so we would simply need to cover over the
short stay info.
 
This would also eliminate
confusion for visitors as the car park would be purely a long stay,
therefore reduce officers’ time answering complaints and
refunding tickets as the car park is currently split long stay and
short stay.
 
This would provide an
additional 51 long stay spaces in the town centre. 
 
Other
options considcered and rejected
Make no changes. The changes to
other parking provision and the loss of the temporary car park at
Cleveland Street mean that additional long stay parking is
required.
 
To split West car park street
to allow short and long stay parking. This arrangement is already
in place at Fleet street but would require lining works to split
the car park, the tariff boards changing and the machine
re-programming to allow long stay. As mentioned, this arrangement
is in place at Fleet street and can sometimes cause issues, people
parking in the wrong area get parking tickets resulting in
complaints. This takes up officer time responding and sometimes
rescinding fines.  It is considered
simpler to have car parks that are subject to the same tariff
throughout.