Plans have been dropped to introduce a office parking levy (WPL) in Bristol due to impacts from the price of residing disaster.
The Mayor of Bristol Marvin Rees introduced that the council would abandon plans regardless of a feasibility research being performed.
A office parking levy is a charge on employers for the variety of parking locations they supply.
They are in place in some cities across the UK, with Nottingham City Council being one of many first areas to launch the costs.
The scheme was first proposed in 2012
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As a part of the scheme, employers which offer greater than 11 parking areas for its staff should pay an annual charge per space.
Currently, workplaces in Nottingham that exceed the edge are charged £522 per space.
Small employers with 10 or fewer office parking areas are entitled to a 100 per cent low cost from the WPL and won’t have to pay a charge.
Bristol seemed into the potential of introducing a WPL for the good thing about elevating cash to develop a mass transit scheme.
One of essentially the most controversial facets of the scheme is that employers can go the fee onto their staff.
Data has proven that eight in 10 corporations in Nottingham go the price of the WPL immediately onto their staff.
The Federation of Small Businesses criticised the choice for Bristol to think about a levy when it was first proposed in 2012.
Commenting on the choice to not transfer ahead with a levy in Bristol, Mayor Marvin Rees mentioned now was not the time to improve prices for hard-pressed staff.
He added: “Bristol has, lately, like the remainder of the world, seen main adjustments in working patterns throughout and following the pandemic.
“These patterns may even have been impacted by the introduction of the Clean Air Zone, for which our administration just lately secured one other £11million to assist individuals and companies to improve to compliant autos.
“A research was performed into the thought of a Workplace Parking Levy, which is missing any modelling incorporating these main elements for its potential effectiveness.
“It stays incomplete and, with the present stalling of the funding and ambition to take a mass transit system ahead, we’ve got no plans to introduce this charge.”
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Bristol launched a Clean Air Zone in November 2022
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In March final yr, Scotland launched plans to give councils the ability to launch office parking levies in a bid to lower using personal autos and enhance public transport utilization.
