A review of parking across Brighton and Hove has begun.
Residents, businesses and other interested parties will be asked about the three key subjects
- Prices
- The future of controlled parking zones
- The operation of the parking service
Changes to parking prices were approved in principle by Councillor Ian Davey, the Brighton and Hove City Council cabinet member for transport and the public realm.
The council will publish a traffic order shortly and this will give the public a chance to express their views.
The citywide review will give people a broader opportunity to say how pricing affects transport choice and to comment on different price bands and zones and extended hours of operation.
The element of the citywide consultation that looks at controlled parking zones will result in a timetable for reviews.
It will also look at whether the boundaries are right, the differences between so-called “light touch” and “full” schemes, local issues, funding and disabled access.
Views are also being sought on how the parking service operates, how it could be modernised using new technology such as cashless parking and ways of improving customer service.
Mark Prior, the lead commissioner for city regulation and infrastructure, will chair the Parking Review Project Board.
He said: “The first stage is to ask residents, businesses, councillors and organisations for their views on these three broad areas so that they have the opportunity to shape the content of the review.
“That input will form the basis of public consultation in the spring.
“We will review on and off-street parking and how the council should consult in the future, and look at the best practice of other councils.”
Council officials will visit local action teams and other community forums and invite cross-party contributions through the council’s scrutiny process.
The review is expected to take a year to complete, with a progress report scheduled after six months.
I paid £25 to park in North Road Car Park a few weeks ago, for 5 hours (a third of my household income!).
I will not be parking in Brighton nor shopping there until car parking is a nominal fee.
I seldom venture into the City these days.
The centre of the City is dying – shop closures due to lack of footfall, motorists like me cannot attend events in the City either. Even the free events, libraries and museums become expensive if you pay to park (in addition to petrol charges and huge delays from roadworks, narrow streets where ‘bus lanes and cycle lanes have impeded the through traffic).
Some people like myself, cannot travel on public ‘buses (and have not done so for over a decade now) – and unless I drive myself into town, I cannot get there. The out-of-town shopping centres will continue to have my custom! Most people live on the outskirts of town, so multiply the lost City centre trade by millions!!!
Like it or not B&H. Council – we will continue to drive our cars – we will just be more discerning where we shop!
It is not as though we have adequate railway stations on the route – my nearest one is a half hour’s walk away! We need more small railway stops between stations, which would help to alleviate the traffic problem of the City centre. We desperately need a railway station at North Moulsecoomb by the industrial estate, halfway between both universities. The existing Moulsecoomb station could be moved southwards to the Saunders Park new development by the Brighton University, and this would make the town more accessible.
Try telling a delivery driver or a mum with kids and shopping that everything will have to be balanced upon a bicycle? Cyclists do not even contribute to the cost of our roads whilst motorists pay through the nose, over and above our share! The motorists are voting with our wheels!!! Whilst cyclists are the priority for this Council, the City’s economy will die. Let us hope the cyclists are very rich and have the means to support the closing shops!!!!
It is a travesty of justice when born and bred Brightonians are prohibited from reaching the town of their birth!!!
This is discrimination through lack of accessibility to our City! Perhaps a human rights issue which should go through the EU.? It certainly impinges the rights of those with a form of disability.