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filtonvoice September 2023 Issue 143
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£5m threat to free parking by BBC LDRS team and Filtonvoice A row has broken out over a threat to free parking in South Gloucestershire – which could affect three locations in Filton. Opposition Conservatives have discovered that Labour – one-half of the new coalition administration with the Lib Dems – discussed introducing charges at council-run car parks at a recent group meeting of its members. In Filton, South Glos runs the car parks at Church Road; Filton Abbeywood Station; and Station Road. But the coalition has fired back, saying the Tories disguised a line in the annual budget last February, when they still ran the local authority, that promised £5million of extra money for council coffers but kept it a secret that this would be from new parking fees. The Lib Dems and Labour say they would have opposed it had they known and that they are now left to implement the charges that have been effectively introduced by the Conservatives, unless they can somehow find the money from other services. That seems increasingly unlikely Turn to Page 4
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