£300 a year to park at work. Would you pay it?

[mcdjl]

dxg said:

I love to know more about this. Can you PM me if you don't want to discuss in public. I'm guessing you're talking about the "forest side" residents.

Forest side tend to moan up at the back of the library but its also the Ashley drive people and thos down near the back of towers- these have moaned about the lack of car parking due to the new design dept going up despite more parking spaces being created before the work started. The ones along the Ashby road also moan about cars left there. I merely dislike those left outside the uni on the junctions from the main road.

Gaspode said:

Yebbut to be fair, how many students have lectures outside a relatively small area? When I was there nearly all (1977 - 1980) my lectures were in Eggington, with a couple in that old building near the (then brand new) Student Union building.

Edit to correct my rubbish memory - Eggington was the flats, lectures were in Brockington building. The old place was Hazlerigg.

Edited by Gaspode on Monday 16th May 20:31

It depends. I had lectures with a 10min gap a mile apart. There are still the main lecture halls in the James France.Brockington/EHB (middle of campus near eggington) building but the engineering buildings are almost a mile away with the largest lecture halls (motorway end) and then a lot of the smaller seminar/tutorial rooms are near towers towards the town.
Feeling old much? I am......

[Hark]

I've just read this crap and it's really irritated me. Money grabbing with some lame environmental cover.

Did you read the bit where paying for the permit doesn't even guarantee you a space.

[Chicane-UK]

Hark said:

I've just read this crap and it's really irritated me. Money grabbing with some lame environmental cover.

Did you read the bit where paying for the permit doesn't even guarantee you a space.

Same at the university I work at.. though parking is a bit less (approx £200/year).

The whole thing is just a pain in the backside. Our system permits you to only have one car registered on the system at a time. If you drive a new / different car into work, you need to rush up to the office, update the details of which car you're in, print out a new permit (really), and run back down and stick it in the car. Not a huge problem for lots of people I'll admit, but to a PH'er with two cars of his own and the option to use his partners, it's a pain in the backside!

To enforce it, they've employed one of these dreadful third party parking enforcement companies who take great delight in finding cars without permits in them, and issuing fines. Predictably I forgot to update my permit once, and got slapped with a ticket. Though I did argue it and got it dismissed once I'd proven I was a permit holder - I'd just forgotten to update the permit on a particularly early (and bleary) start one morning.

I suppose most frustratingly parking USED to be free. I don't actually see what I'm getting for my £200 year, other than potential harassment from parking nazi's!

[Mr POD]

When I went to university and studied manufacturing engineering, we did a group project where we designed whole new factory from scratch, including where to put it and how big the car park needed to be, and IIRC we were taught that you needed to design enough space for the entire workforce plus 10%, plus have space for expansion.

How things change, when the wkers are let loose.

If someone wanted to charge me for parking, I'd take my services elsewhere.

[anonymous-user]

Ian Lancs said:

I love the bit where it says students are encouraged not to bring their cars - def. wasn't the case when I was there....

I only know a handful of people that drive in now. As you will know it's not a big place Loughborough so students walk and cycle. I don't think the uni discourages students at all, we all walk and cycle through choice.

[Mr POD]

bozmandb9 said:

Depends on the job, maybe if I was head of recruitment for Spearmint Rhino!



Otherwise I'll carry on working for myself. That's a though, if I charge myself loads of money to park at work will it save me some tax???

Erm no. Although if the CLIENT charges you to park that's tax deductable.

[dxg]

mcdjl said:

dxg said:

I love to know more about this. Can you PM me if you don't want to discuss in public. I'm guessing you're talking about the "forest side" residents.

Forest side tend to moan up at the back of the library but its also the Ashley drive people and thos down near the back of towers- these have moaned about the lack of car parking due to the new design dept going up despite more parking spaces being created before the work started. The ones along the Ashby road also moan about cars left there. I merely dislike those left outside the uni on the junctions from the main road.

Gaspode said:

Yebbut to be fair, how many students have lectures outside a relatively small area? When I was there nearly all (1977 - 1980) my lectures were in Eggington, with a couple in that old building near the (then brand new) Student Union building.

Edit to correct my rubbish memory - Eggington was the flats, lectures were in Brockington building. The old place was Hazlerigg.

Edited by Gaspode on Monday 16th May 20:31

It depends. I had lectures with a 10min gap a mile apart. There are still the main lecture halls in the James France.Brockington/EHB (middle of campus near eggington) building but the engineering buildings are almost a mile away with the largest lecture halls (motorway end) and then a lot of the smaller seminar/tutorial rooms are near towers towards the town.
Feeling old much? I am......

Have you seen this:
http://www.charnwood.gov.uk/files/documents/loughb...

Note the plan for *another* multi storey down by the towers. I wonder how it will be paid for...

(And, yes, I can see the logical fallacy sitting behind this if the intent of the permit scheme is as the policy claims and not as some posters have suggested above).

[Hudson]

They want everyone to ride bikes so they can pretend they're cambridge uni. Pathetic.

[mcdjl]

dxg said:

Have you seen this:
http://www.charnwood.gov.uk/files/documents/loughb...

Note the plan for *another* multi storey down by the towers. I wonder how it will be paid for...

(And, yes, I can see the logical fallacy sitting behind this if the intent of the permit scheme is as the policy claims and not as some posters have suggested above).

I hadn't seen that particular document but was aware that it had been proposed, and that the residents were again worried about the loss of parking spaces while its being built.
The unis problem is that while some residents realise that the uni is by far the biggest employer (and even more so when the related income is included) in north Leicestershire a lot of residents love to hate students and everything associated with them. Thus the uni has to try to pander to them and be seen to being harsh on student discipline/ parking etc.
Its kind of the same problem the union had about 7 years back when it realised that per head students drank more in the union than in pretty much any other club/pub in the country and had to be seen to discourage drunkenness, yet still had to maintain their income which was (is) almost entirely reliant on this spend.