Labour have chosen to increase the price of visitors’ parking permits to 90p an hour from this weekend, for all except the elderly and registered disabled. Currently you only pay 57p per hour for the first 40 hours of visitors’ parking permits each three months. That’s a 58% increase in the price they are making you pay – an eye-watering extra £52.80 a year for anyone buying their allowance of 40 hours of visitors’ permits every three months!
Nigel Rumble, the Conservative candidate for the Primrose Hill & Camden Town by-election urges local residents to buy 40 hours before the end of Friday afternoon: “My advice to anyone who hasn’t recently bought visitors’ permits is to head straight to Camden Town Hall to buy 40 hours-worth before 5pm on Friday,” he said.
“Labour have no concept of the impact this will have on families in Camden. Many of us are already living on strained budgets. This is a wholly unreasonable and punitive increase in the cost of visitors’ parking permits,” declared Cllr Andrew Mennear, the Conservative Leader on Camden Council, “Labour should be deeply ashamed of themselves.”
Families will suffer further as Labour are also going to charge the owners of diesel vehicles an additional £10 a year on top of the normal price of a parking permit. “Labour claim they are doing this for environmental reasons. Yet many residents will have chosen diesel engines as they emit less CO2 than petrol engines, and Camden is supposedly seeking to encourage residents to choose cars which emit less CO2. Labour really don’t have a clue,” Andrew added.
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