Bury Conservatives plan Fairfax Road car park charges
The Conservatives running Bury Town Hall plan to introduce parking charges for the car park on Fairfax Road in Prestwich.
The proposed new charges, which have not yet officially been announced but which I have learned about from a source close to the Council, are planned to come into force in the new financial year, and are included in the budget which is to be presented to Council in a couple of weeks.
Charges will run until 3pm, meaning that morning and lunchtime shoppers will have to pay to use a car park that was free to use until now.
I think these plans are going to be hugely damaging for Prestwich, especially for businesses in the centre of town. It is a shocking indictment of the Tories at the Town Hall that they would potentially cripple Prestwich businesses like this, diverting cars onto residential streets or away from Prestwich altogether.
I will vigorously oppose this move which, alongside Tory plans to close the Longfield Suite, show the levels of contempt with which the Conservative Council is treating the people of my ward.
Rick
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