{"id":327911,"date":"2025-08-08T12:56:10","date_gmt":"2025-08-08T12:56:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/327911\/"},"modified":"2025-08-08T12:56:10","modified_gmt":"2025-08-08T12:56:10","slug":"birmingham-beauty-spot-parking-consultation-formally-launched","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/327911\/","title":{"rendered":"Birmingham beauty spot parking consultation formally launched"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A total of 919 respondents in the previous consultation (78.4 per cent) felt access to Lickey Hills should remain free.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">For Sheldon Country Park, that figure was 120 respondents (65.9 per cent), while for Sutton Park it was 2,741 respondents (68.2 per cent).<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Acknowledging the opposition to the proposed charges, a recent council report said introducing parking charges is often &#8220;controversial and unpopular&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">But it maintained that the projected income from the parking charges still falls short of the cost of maintaining the three parks in question.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Therefore, it is deemed reasonable to ask park users to contribute financially to the upkeep and maintenance of these parks,&#8221; it said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Despite the introduction of parking charges, there will still be a requirement for financial support from the council&#8217;s general fund to maintain and manage these parks.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The report went on to say there was more support for the revised parking charges, which were lower than the consulted ones.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The three separate consultations for Sutton Park, Lickey Hills Country Park and Sheldon Country Park close on 29 August.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A total of 919 respondents in the previous consultation (78.4 per cent) felt access to Lickey Hills should&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":327912,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7820],"tags":[855,748,393,4884,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-327911","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-birmingham","8":"tag-birmingham","9":"tag-britain","10":"tag-england","11":"tag-great-britain","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114993259059218266","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327911","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=327911"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327911\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/327912"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=327911"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=327911"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=327911"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}