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Bristol city council ditches workplace parking levy plans

Date: 22 October 2012   |   Author: Rachel Burgess

Bristol has abandoned plans to introduce a workplace parking levy, which it hoped would raise £27 million to implement improved bus services in the city.

The scheme, which would have charged over 10,000 city centre employees £1 per day to park, has been dropped by the Liberal Democrat-run council, which said it was not practical to implement.

Tim Kent, the city councilor responsible for transport, told local paper The Bristol Evening Post that the unpopular plan had been scrapped because it would have sent out a negative message about the city.

He added there were issues surrounding how the levy would have been administered.

BusinessCar first reported that Bristol was considering a levy in July 2010, following in the footsteps of Nottingham, which implemented its scheme earlier this year.

Since launching the system, which means any firm with more than 10 parking spaces has to pay £288 per spot, staff at city-based Imperial Tobacco have implemented an indefinite overtime ban in a dispute over the levy, while local residents close to the centre have complained of blocked drives and increased traffic as a result of commuters parking on streets.

Meanwhile, Edinburgh could be the next city in line, after the council's minority Labour Group proposing a similar scheme earlier this year, which could charge firms £300 annually per space for parking that's currently free.

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