IT may be helpful to provide some statistics about the council's ResPark scheme.
The Residents' Parking scheme has 48 individual zones. Last year in those zones an astonishing 166,430 visitor permits were issued. This huge number means that in more than 71 per cent of the schemes, visitor permits outnumber household permits by a ratio of at least 20 to 1 (in one zone the ratio is an 122 to 1).
This effectively means the cars of visitors are preventing residents from parking close to their own homes - or sometimes from parking at all.
The key reason for the significant increase in the cost of visitor permits fees was to give some space back to those who really need it.
The revised residents' parking permit charges now mean that, for the first time in four years, the cost of operating the scheme is being fully met by those who have the benefit of it and is not being subsidised by funding from council car parks.
Peter Evely,
Head of Network Management,
St Leonard's Place,
York.
Updated: 09:29 Monday, December 06, 2004
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