having to pay to park in the park car park....

having to pay to park in the park car park....

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davidc1

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1,544 posts

161 months

Saturday 27th August 2016
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some the parks near me in south London/kent are charging . My local wants £2 . Absolutely criminal. Anyone else see this popping up where they live.

Chas88

630 posts

165 months

Saturday 27th August 2016
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Nowhere near me does, but then again I'm miles away from London which probably has something to do with it.

Countdown

39,690 posts

195 months

Saturday 27th August 2016
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Why is it unreasonable?

Either everybody pays via Council Tax or only those that use the car parks pay.

hedgefinder

3,418 posts

169 months

Saturday 27th August 2016
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Countdown said:
Why is it unreasonable?

Either everybody pays via Council Tax or only those that use the car parks pay.
yes, exactly ... they already do pay via council tax...

xRIEx

8,180 posts

147 months

Saturday 27th August 2016
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£2? £2 whole fking pounds?! I mean that's more the price of a pack of ten fags 15 years ago.

Jasandjules

69,825 posts

228 months

Saturday 27th August 2016
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Yes one of our local dog walking haunts charges £1 per hour I think it is...

We don't go there anymore.....

Hoofy

76,253 posts

281 months

Saturday 27th August 2016
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I guess it will happen throughout the country as what the council gets from central government is reduced further and further.

Crumpet

3,876 posts

179 months

Saturday 27th August 2016
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Is this a new thing? It's been like that for as long as I can remember near me in Yorkshire. In fact I'd be surprised if I found somewhere that was free! Admittedly having to pay is partly what stops me going to them.

Smanks

3,100 posts

186 months

Saturday 27th August 2016
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I think you need this thread here

Pathetic really

MDMA .

8,849 posts

100 months

Saturday 27th August 2016
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Local one to me has charged for as long as i can remember. £1.50. Now just doubled in price. Free if you are playing golf on the adjoining course. I just park in the golf parking area. fk them !

Hugh Jarse

3,486 posts

204 months

Saturday 27th August 2016
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i agree with the rant.
Its just tax on doing stuff with the family/friends/yourself.
Tax income not beer otherwise the stay at homes win.

dxg

8,121 posts

259 months

Saturday 27th August 2016
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All of the local dog walking / horse riding / keeping kids amused / forest car parks round here charge.

But, to be fair, the walks are well maintained and free from litter. There's even a Warden who walks round keeping an eye on things (but mainly fining those without parking tickets).

TooMany2cvs

29,008 posts

125 months

Saturday 27th August 2016
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hedgefinder said:
yes, exactly ... they already do pay via council tax...
And, if parking was free, they'd be paying more in council tax.

Look, it's very simple. If parking is unlimited and free, then there's going to be damn near unlimited demand, too - especially in any kind of large city, which is where parks have car parking...

So would you rather go to the park but be unable to find a parking space because everybody was leaving their cars there all day while they're at work?
Or would you rather get off your high horse, and accept that living in a city means that parking needs to be restricted somehow, and charging for it's as good a way as any of doing that?

wiliferus

4,053 posts

197 months

Saturday 27th August 2016
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Smanks said:
I think you need this thread here

Pathetic really
Why is it pathetic? Parks are council run, which bizarrely we all pay for through our Council Tax. Changing to use the facilities is double charging. I don't think it's pathetic, it boils my piss that this government are doing their best to bleed as much money out of the average man as they can.

TooMany2cvs

29,008 posts

125 months

Saturday 27th August 2016
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wiliferus said:
Why is it pathetic? Parks are council run, which bizarrely we all pay for through our Council Tax. Changing to use the facilities is double charging. I don't think it's pathetic, it boils my piss that this government are doing their best to bleed as much money out of the average man as they can.
<sigh> So EVERYTHING a council provides should be free at the point of access for everybody, should it?
Do you have any idea how much that'd put your council tax up?

BTW, the reason councils - which are different to "this government" are having to tighten financial belts so much is precisely because "this government" is changing the way they're funded, and reducing the funds going to them. Because the last government (well, the one before last, but I presume you're thinking 2010-on, rather than just 2015-on) handed the country over spending FAR more each year than was coming in in tax.

xRIEx

8,180 posts

147 months

Saturday 27th August 2016
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wiliferus said:
Smanks said:
I think you need this thread here

Pathetic really
Why is it pathetic? Parks are council run, which bizarrely we all pay for through our Council Tax. Changing to use the facilities is double charging. I don't think it's pathetic, it boils my piss that this government are doing their best to bleed as much money out of the average man as they can.
We pay for the NHS through taxation and National Insurance but I still have to pay for prescriptions, dental check ups, fillings, etc. Is that double-charging? Do I need to start a rant thread and whine about it?

Countdown

39,690 posts

195 months

Saturday 27th August 2016
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wiliferus said:
Why is it pathetic? Parks are council run, which bizarrely we all pay for through our Council Tax. Changing to use the facilities is double charging. I don't think it's pathetic, it boils my piss that this government are doing their best to bleed as much money out of the average man as they can.
Council costs are going up. Demand for stuff such as care costs is increasing.

If we are going to "socialise" costs I think it should be stuff that is essential, rather than something that is "nice to have". To give an extreme example - why doesn't the Council pay for my Foie Gras? After all, the ducks live in the Park which I pay for through Council Tax...

bitchstewie

50,781 posts

209 months

Saturday 27th August 2016
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If they didn't charge they'd be full of freeloaders parking in them to avoid paying for parking for work.

Smanks

3,100 posts

186 months

Saturday 27th August 2016
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wiliferus said:
Why is it pathetic? Parks are council run, which bizarrely we all pay for through our Council Tax. Changing to use the facilities is double charging. I don't think it's pathetic, it boils my piss that this government are doing their best to bleed as much money out of the average man as they can.
Everyone just seems to whinge about everything and it gets rather tedious, and yes it is pathetic moaning about car parks, don't park there if you don't want to fork out £2.

Jaguar steve

9,232 posts

209 months

Saturday 27th August 2016
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Used to piss me off too.

Parking in the county park at the bottom of my lane was originally free and had been for years but then a couple of cars got broken into so our local authority immediately installed machines that demanded your registration number so you couldn't give unused time on your ticket to anybody else when leaving, were incapable of giving any change and charged £1.50 an hour for a ticket but of course offered a premium rate mobile phone and credit card payment option instead to cover the cost of providing additional "security"... Yeah, right.

The result was cars still got broken into and suddenly dozens of often high value ones like Range Rovers and late model Audi and Mercedes whose owners were obviously too skint to afford a ticket started quite obliviously cluttering and sometimes completely blocking our lane or the footpath to the park and let their overexcited and desperate for a dump mutts to st everywhere. On their way back they'd fling bags of barbecue and picnic litter and dog poo into our neighbors garden that they'd had to carry away from the park because they couldn't be arsed to find a bin and somebody might report them or even worse somebody they knew might witness them just leaving their crap scattered all over.

We moved smile