From next month, drivers will be charged from 7am to 11pm<\/a>, rather than the current length of 8am to 6pm. It will also cost motorists more to leave their car in a city bay as 30 minutes parking in the city centre has gone up from \u00a31.20 to \u00a32 while an hour will now cost \u00a34, up from \u00a32.40.<\/p>\nNow the local authority is being urged to look again by the Liverpool BID Company – which represents more than 800-levy paying organisations in the city centre. In a statement, the company said while it understood the council\u2019s ambition, the extension of parking charges \u201cis not the right solution and risks harming Liverpool\u2019s renowned and celebrated nightlife.\u201d<\/p>\n
According to Liverpool Council, since the creation of a controlled parking zone (CPZ) in the 1990s the city centre has \u201cchanged substantially\u201d with the creation of new pedestrianised areas and off-street car parks. Cllr Dan Barrington, cabinet member for transport and connectivity, said changes to the city\u2019s parking offering would help deal with issues like the ongoing scourge of pavement parking.<\/p>\n
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Council pay and display machine outside the Cunard Building.<\/p>\n
In a statement, Liverpool BID Company said a number of levy payers and city centre firms had voiced their concerns about the change, particularly within the hospitality, leisure and cultural sectors. They said the changes \u201cdisproportionately and negatively affect their operations.\u201d<\/p>\n
The statement said: \u201cLiverpool BID Company strongly urges Liverpool Council to reconsider its position regarding the extension of evening parking restrictions. We understand the ambition to reduce congestion, to manage parking demand and to improve air quality, but this is not the right solution and risks harming Liverpool\u2019s renowned and celebrated nightlife.<\/p>\n
\u201cLiverpool\u2019s night-time economy is a critical ingredient in the city\u2019s economic prosperity and its brand. The number of late night venues increased in the last year by 7.8%, this city\u2019s nightlife is second only to London\u2019s.<\/p>\n
\u201cFor 15 years running, Liverpool\u2019s night-time economy has been awarded Purple Flag Status, international recognition for being safe and well managed. It is vital for us that Liverpool is welcome, vibrant and secure, whatever the time of day or night.<\/p>\n
\u201cThese changes threaten both that prosperity and sustainability.\u201d The company said parking changes would also impact the ability of staff to travel home after working a late shift and would make recruitment and retention harder for businesses.<\/p>\n
The statement added: \u201cIt is a deterrent to visitors, affecting footfall. There is a lack of late night travel options meaning people will just stay home.\u201d<\/p>\n
This has prompted the BID to offer a solution of its own. They said: \u201cIf the council is unwilling to reverse the post-6pm charge \u2014 the majority of UK cities do not charge for on-street parking after 6pm \u2014 we ask for an alternative solution: the introduction of a fair, transparent, and flat-rate evening parking tariff effective from 6pm onwards.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis would remove the burden from employees trying to get home. The money could be ring-fenced to pay for the public realm and to improve parking facilities and to improve late-night public transport services.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Liverpool BID Company has reacted following the city council’s decision to end free parking after 6pmLiverpool Council held…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":69845,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8815],"tags":[748,51,393,4884,179,2349,14487,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-69844","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-liverpool","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-business","10":"tag-england","11":"tag-great-britain","12":"tag-liverpool","13":"tag-liverpool-city-centre","14":"tag-liverpool-council","15":"tag-uk","16":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114441227549568320","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69844","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=69844"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69844\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/69845"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69844"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69844"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69844"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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Liverpool Council held consultations into extending parking charges in the city centre past their current 6pm cut-off(Image: Liverpool Echo)<\/p>\n