Decision details

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.