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Oxfordshire County Council has claimed proposals for a possible workplace parking levy (WPL) has received less opposition than expected.
The idea is part of the council's Local Transport Plan leading up to 2030.
The suggestion "proved less controversial than expected," Sue Scane, Oxfordshire's director for environment and economy told Transportxtra.com, although she added the charge was opposed by some individual businesses.
"The WPL wouldn't help businesses at all," a spokeswoman for Oxfordshire Chamber of Commerce told BusinessCar. "A consultation would urge the council to listen to views very carefully."
The spokesman for the council told BusinessCar: "Should we get to the stage of proposing a WPL it will be subject to consultation on its own rather than as part of the broad policy document that was our Local Transport Plan."
"Clearly that would be a more significant test of opinions in Oxfordshire on this subject," the spokesman added.
As part of the white paper, the council has outlined £1.2 billion worth of transport improvements, including a new network of park and ride bus schemes, rapid transit bus services for the busiest parts of the city and bus tunnels underneath the city centre.
The ideas will be used to lobby the Government to pay for the upgrades.
The proposed levy would charge firms for the number of parking spaces they own above a threshold, similar to a scheme that is in place in Nottingham where businesses with 11 or more parking spaces are charged £375 per space each year.
Oxford is yet to set the charge or number of spaces that would be affected, but a spokesman for the council told BusinessCar that 2019 is the earliest that a WPL could be rolled out.
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