Council Lobbies for More Funding for Town Parking
January 30, 2009
As a reality of the ‘miserly’ settlement from the One Wales Government, Rhondda Cynon Taf Council is seeking additional funding from the Deputy First Minister’s department to support Town Centre parking.
County Borough Councillor, Andrew Morgan, Cabinet Member for Highways & Customer Care said:
“As a clear consequence of the dire settlement from the Assembly, we are faced with the need to review our car parking charging arrangements across the County.
“Every Council across Wales is facing similar difficult decisions, squarely because of a poor local government funding settlement from the Assembly.
“While the disparity in charges across the County needs to be addressed, I have written to the Deputy First Minister in his role as Minister for Economic Development to seek a financial assistance package to support town centre car parking.
“Charging in car parks has remained the same since 2000 but tough decisions in relation to our car parking arrangement framework are now likely to be forced upon us as a reality of the low settlement.
“I will be seeking cross party support to lobby the Deputy First Minister to secure this additional funding.
“The low settlement means we cannot provide free parking in our town centre parking facility from the Council’s own budget and this is why the Assembly needs to consider funding such an initiative.”
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