For years I have been paying £100 per year to park my big old car wherever I want in the middle of town, but we had dire warnings that the price was going to rocket up a few months ago, mainly to combat pollution in the clean air zone.
A friend of mine who has a brand new car told me he paid £107 and I was jealous. Another friend with an old diesel Land Rover recently paid £250 to renew his permit, and he lives on the outskirts. They have offered ways to pay which go from quarterly to 6 months to 9 months, so I was getting a bit edgy.
I paid for mine yesterday for one year. £120. Phew. That seems reasonable enough to me.
The way things are going, generally, it will soon be cheaper to sell the car and book taxis.
ReplyDeleteNot quite...
DeleteUS newscasters state they are working to determine why nobody listens to the news. I've noticed no improvement in presenting the news. Your parking cost increase is not as bad as it could have been.
ReplyDeleteI don't see how you could improve it.
DeleteWell I no longer have a car and I must say that now it seems I may have epilepsy I would have to give it up anyway.
ReplyDeleteYes, true.
Delete£120 is pretty good for a whole year isn't it ? Goodness knows how people are going to pay their gas and electric .....our son is probably OK as he earns well { although they have just moved and their mortgage is higher } but, our daughter and boyfriend work for the NHS and, even though they are in a high band, it is quite daunting for them and many of their friends..... even if you are in a well paid job, it is going to be difficult. I think there will be repercussions come the New Year. XXXX
ReplyDeleteThat's not bad for a city centre.
ReplyDeleteIt is a bargain I think, but I won't tell them that.
Delete£120 is CHEAP!! We live in little Royal Wootton Bassett and we have to park in the town carpark, which is massive and never full - for the "bargain" price of £700 a year. Yup - you read that right. It has increased year on year until we reached this point. Selling the car and using taxis is becoming a very real prospect but at the moment my husband is very ill and has daily radiotherapy an hour away so I need my vehicle.
ReplyDeleteThat's because they turned into ROYAL Wootton Basset, I expect.
DeleteYears ago, WHICH did a report on cars and it worked out that it is cheaper to take taxis everywhere than run a car !!! Just not quite so convenient. XXXX
DeleteI don't trust Which.
Delete£120 is really good for a years worth of parking isn't it ? In this time of massively high bills, I think you got a result there ! XXXX
ReplyDeleteDefinitely.
DeleteWell done, faihfull car parker.
ReplyDeleteResidents Parking Permits should be free. In Norwich they are between £30 and £60 per annum based on car length, small, medium and long. The price went up 2 weeks ago.
ReplyDeleteHere in Bath, nothing is going to be free.
DeleteI think you meant Felixstowe! The A14 will be nice and quiet without the trucks but the shops will soon be empty
ReplyDeleteOh yes, so I did.
DeleteThe CAZ here in Bristol starts in November. Though some of the way the classifications work is a bit awry. Many older and polluting petrols are not captured, but some more modern diesels are (anything less than EURO6) as far as I can tell. I have a diesel car that we don't pay Vehicle Excise Duty on (EURO5), but will be captured by the scheme. Make of that what you will!
ReplyDeleteA friend of mine has one of those tiny vans that are normally used to deliver sandwiches. Firstly he was banned from entering the city, but then they realised that the blanket ban on commercial vehicles made no sense.
DeleteHere in Harpenden a lot of the roads that are within easy walk of the station ( 20 mins to London) now have parking restrictions. We are lucky in that we have quite a big drive, but I think the neighbours in the terrace houses have to pay £35 ish per year for the privilege of parking outside their houses. Our road had to apply for the restrictions to be put in place as people parking for the station were causing some people difficulty getting safely out of their drives. The process took about 2 years I think!
ReplyDeleteI cannot park closer than 500 yards to my home and I wouldn't mind paying £35, but it's different here.
DeleteParking is free in Bantry.
ReplyDeleteMaybe I'll move to Bantry then.
DeleteIn Berlin you have areas for residents which are till now very, very cheap (20 Euro - a parking place is not guaranteed, but you are allowed in that area near your flat to park for free). There are still areas in the bustling city where no-one has to pay - but mostly you have to buy a parking ticket.
ReplyDeleteThe good news is: Berlin has a very, very good net of subways/busses/trams, so you most often don't need a car.
In the Bavarian village you don't have to pay anything - but one NEEDS a car, thus I had to buy one (even taxis are very difficult to get here).