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JULY 2018 • ISSUE 59 • www.thescarboroughreview.com • Covering Filey and Hunmanby
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Free winter parking may be history “It’s not so much the cost, it’s the principle” by Dave Barry
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SCARBOROUGH, Filey and Whitby are to lose their free winter parking in most council carparks, if councillors have their way. It is being proposed to charge a nominal sum of £1 per day to begin with, although it is feared it will go up later. Some members of Scarborough Council’s parking working group say the extra revenue will help finance a residents’ concession for using the carparks. However, at least two group members are unhappy with the plan and claim they were excluded from the decision-making process. Cllr Janet Jefferson says: “We weren’t even invited, never mind consulted, to the meeting where it was decided,
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on 3 May”. The excluded councillors have called the decision in, which means they have registered an official complaint and called for adjudication. They say: “We ask that the decision of the leisure portfolio holder [group chair Cllr Andrew Jenkinson] be taken to the scrutiny board, the parking working group and full council for ratification as the proposals are financial and could be very detrimental to both our residents and the borough economy. “Apart from certain cabinet members, only a couple of group members attended”, the councillors state. “We feel resident car-parking concessions should not be introduced at the cost of losing free winter parking … [which] is essential
to our tourism economy, enabling many attractions and facilities to remain open all year round, thereby maintaining 12-month employment for residents”. The winter charge could “put additional demand on on-street parking spaces throughout the borough … for which, in many cases, residents are now paying £30 a year”. Cllr Jefferson added: “It’s not so much the cost, it’s the principle”. The charge will be applied at most but not all council carparks. The ones it will apply to include Marine Drive, Northstead Upper, Scalby Mills, Victoria Park in Scarborough and Country Park, Station Avenue, Church Ravine and Coble Landing in Filey. The call-in will be discussed by the scrutiny board on 4 July.
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