Increases to parking fees across the Isle of Wight have been scrapped — less than 2 weeks after the controversial move was approved. Charges will also not be introduced on Union Street in Newport and fees will not be increased for various parking permits, the Isle of Wight Council has confirmed. It follows the unveiling of the authority’s ruling Alliance Administration’s budget plans for the financial year ahead, where council leader Councillor Phil Jordan said the cost of car parking would be frozen, as previously reported by Island Echo. A decision was made at the end of January, by the council’s director of community services, to increase the parking fees and costs of parking permits. Among the changes, it would have hiked the price of the All Island Permit to nearly £780 a year. All of the price increases could have made the authority an additional £431,867. A challenge had been made by some Isle of Wight councillors, which could have halted the increases, but the challenge was rejected earlier this week. Now, with confirmation from the Government that the Isle of Wight Council will get an extra £3million a year to deliver services on an Island, the authority has made a U-turn on the parking charges decision. Councillor Jordan has said that doing so will be good for businesses and shoppers in the Island’s town and villages. But the news comes in the same week that Newport & Carisbrooke Community Council confirms it is pulling out of the 1-hour free parking scheme in Newport. A council spokesperson has confirmed the increases will not be going ahead.
PARKING CHARGES HIKE SCRAPPED IN DECISION ‘GOOD FOR BUSINESSES AND SHOPPERS’
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The £431,867 figure is based on people paying the increases which would be wrong as less permits would be sold due to cost and more people using car parks less due to increased charges. Looks like someone has listened but if you want business to recover then a freeze in car parking charges isn’t enough.
Scrap all parking charges. We own the council so we own the council land. We should be allowed to park for free on our land.
“Why only park cars? I demand free use of our land to store a fridge!”
if you want to park, pay for it. It’s valuable land that otherwise could be green or used in any other way.
You aren’t a benefits receiver, are you?
IWC = Amateurs !! Only thing they won’t u-turn on is the Floating Farce !! FB6 why ??
Whilst I would like to believe that the (mostly) unexpected £3m is the reason for this I am struggling to do so.
Parking charges have been misused as a cash cow for a long time now and to suddenly not even increase them by inflation seems a little suspicious. Particularly since the bonus cash does not seem to have affected the maximum 5% hike in the base council tax.
I would be farm more inclined to believe that someone missed a filing deadline for the paperwork that would enable the parking charge hike to take place.
Parking permits islandwide for tenants and reduce Council tax.
Island Echo – please confirm that the IW Council had not paid for new signage of the intended increases. Thanks.
Still too much.
You can park this time of the year in Whitby along the seafront f.o.c.
IW COUNCIL IS RUN BADLY
Scrap the over night charge of £2.00, even London don’t charge such a fee.
This Council is a joke and is ruining the Island.
Totally agree, the greed of the iwc is absolutely ridiculous £2-05 for 1hr ….HUH ODD 5P…..
The free hour was a help but omg ….
We all know how many times they have upped the parking fee’s….
£2 TO PARK OVERNIGHT????
Also if you go to medina theatre ir costs £2 for the performance time …..
I now realise we are being run by a bunch of crooks
who mismanage our money and are charging us more for
their bad judgements and mistakes.
Going to the pantomime costs me £6.20 for the afternoon performance.
It won’t next time and that’s nothing against them, that’s all on the council.
I think this whole thing was a complete farce. Tell the public there will be a price hike (knowing there won’t be) then do a public U turn and ask the public to believe a new decision has been made. The whole thing stinks, like most things C.H trumps up. This is nothing more than a P.R stunt.
I still wont use payment parking
i pay road tax so will park on the road
How can I pay that road tax?
All I see is VED but that’s just for polluting air.
AFAIK roads are paid from general taxation? So why are only drivers allowed to keep their possessions there? I’d like to store my old fridge somewhere for free.
The G’estapo Wardens were down Union Street Ryde today
They are making the Island an unpleasant place!
Neither will I. I pay the B’stards £2,000.00 a year to have my bins
emptied once a week.
Robbing B’stards
But they are scrapping the one hour free service
newport and carisbrooke parish council are doing this,so now the dopey council,think they are doing us a favour,twats!
This is to tone down the removal of the free hour parking in Newport, which will be announced shortly.
No cause they can a massively higher council tax instead
One way to beat parking charges park on the pavement
Opposite Sandown Pier by the old Gift shop.
Beats paying scandalous seafront parking charges.
Have the finally learned they cannot keep hitting motorists with exorbitant charges? We used to park in council car parks virtually every day when walking our dogs. As charges increased we decided enough is enough and started parking in free to park areas and also changed many of our dog walking areas to places with free parking. We probably pay for parking by greater than 50% less times than we did in the past – surely bad decisions by the authority in the past. This decision is welcome.