£250 a year to park at work

Aurora · Post by **Aurora** » 23 Aug 2010, 21:31

AutoBlog - 23/08/10

Motorists could be hit by a £250 a year bill as local authorities actively consider taxing them for parking a car at work.

The Workplace Parking Levy is likely to still make it into the law books despite the new Government's transport secretary Philip Hammond promising to end the 'war on motorists' when he took on the job in May.

Nottingham will be the first city to introduce the scheme, with businesses set to be hit with a £253 charge from 2012, with the cost rising to £301 by 2014. It will affect all companies with 11 or more parking spaces, which is said to be around 15 percent of the employers in the city.

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emordnilap · Post by **emordnilap** » 23 Aug 2010, 21:39

One advert in a recent Buy and Sell was an offer to swap a single-car garage in the middle of Dublin for an apartment in Spain....

2 As and a B · Post by **2 As and a B** » 23 Aug 2010, 21:55

I have a 5-minute front-door to office-door walk to work.

When I'm not working from home.

JohnB · Post by **JohnB** » 23 Aug 2010, 22:11

I haven't driven to work since 1986. Except when visiting clients who paid me for it

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madibe · Post by **madibe** » 23 Aug 2010, 22:13

Essentially, the people HAVING to drive in and work will demand more pay to cover the cost...the price of services will go up. The 'man' wil just get richer, It will have zero effect on what it is supposed to effect.

And everyone pays more. Which makes the man wealthier at our expense.

Duh.

neckiep · Post by **neckiep** » 23 Aug 2010, 23:18

In Nottingham the levy will go towards paying for the new tram lines and will only affect larger employers. The employer has to pay the levy, not the employee. Not a bad plan I reckon especially as the public transport in Nottingham is better than a lot of other cities.

Post by **kenneal - lagger** » 24 Aug 2010, 03:41

The employer will end up closing the spaces and employees will have to find somewhere else to park. The employee will not be able to find anywhere and will be forced onto public transport, which is the eventual idea behind the scheme. Meanwhile, the declining profits from parking spaces will have part funded the public transport infrastructure.

Let's just hope that there aren't too many tram schemes, though. Trolley buses work off lecky but don't require all those expensive and disruptive steel rails.

JohnB · Post by **JohnB** » 24 Aug 2010, 09:53

kenneal wrote:The employer will end up closing the spaces and employees will have to find somewhere else to park. The employee will not be able to find anywhere and will be forced onto public transport, which is the eventual idea behind the scheme.

I thought they parked in side streets and upset the local residents!