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Originally Posted by polly

I am all for actively discouraging unnecessary cars, but can a company really be charge for cars parked on their own land? Surely they are already paying business rates for this land?

Yes they can charge parking fees on their own land. Hospitals already do so. Even the local authorities do the same with their own land (cark parks).

What I am not sure about is can the Council legitimately charge a land owner if that land owner allows free parking for employees and visitors? Surely the business would have had planning permission when the business was first built and that planning permission would have included any car park. So I don’t think that the Council can charge a land owner for allowing parking on his land without passing at least a bye law first.

If this crackpot idea goes through in Nottingham and spreads to the rest of the country I wonder what supermarkets will have to say about it?

At £185 pa per parking space that is 51p per day. Not a lot for an employee to pay. Guess who will get the ten free spaces.