Issue - meetings

To consider a report of the Corporate Director for Place Management and Regeneration

The report provides a factual overview of parking tariffs and policies in neighbouring district centres and provides an overview of the options available in Stockport.

The Scrutiny Committee is requested to comment on the report.

Officer Contact: Paul Lawrence on 0161 474 4515 or email: paul.lawrence@stockport.gov.uk

The Corporate Director for Place Management and Regeneration submitted a report (copies of which had been circulated) providing an overview of parking tariffs and policies in neighbouring district centres and providing an overview of the options available in Stockport.

The Executive Councillor (Supporting Places) (Councillor Martin Candler) attended the meeting to respond to Members’ questions.

The Scrutiny Committee debated whether it should recommend that a trial, perhaps in certain areas of the borough, should take place over a six months’ period to assess the impact of free parking in the district centres and how it may act as a stimulus to attract people to the district centres. Although some support was expressed for the principle, the Committee generally felt that in the context of the scale of the budget savings that the Council would have to make over the next few years and the significant sum of money which would have to be found to offset the reduction in the Council’s revenue budget, this should not be pursued as a viable option at this moment in time.

RESOLVED – That the report be noted.