A LEADING York retail boss has welcomed news that charges at shoppers’ main car parks are to be frozen.
Adam Sinclair said it was vital to keep attracting people to the city, and said he was “reassured” that there was no price increase for the Foss Bank car park, nor for the short-stay car parks at Bootham Row and Clifford’s Tower. City of York Council is proposing to increase many parking charges for 2009/10.
It includes the first increases in five years for Minster Badge holders parking in council standard-stay car parks. Charges at short-stay car parks and Foss Bank, are being kept the same.
Mr Sinclair said: “We are very reassured that the shoppers’ car park at Foss Bank is frozen at 70p an hour and that the rates at Bootham Row and Clifford’s Tower have been frozen.”
* In our leader article in last Thursday’s paper, The Press referred to proposals for “across-the-board” increases in parking charges. This was intended to denote that the charges would affect a wide range of motorists and residents, rather than that parking charges would go up for absolutely everybody.
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