Calstock Parish Council will be reviewing its car parking procedures early in the new year, as it does every year. We look at the costs incurred in the car parks and review our parking charges in Gunnislake.
There has not been any resolution from the Parish Council to charge in Calstock – this would require a thorough and detailed costings exercise and a formal consultation process.
As a parish council we do need to consider long term strategies such as ongoing maintenance costs of our surfacing, flooding issues in Calstock and how to respond to the increased use of electric vehicles which we fully endorse.
Leave the car parks alone as a resident this is where I park as I don’t have parking and run a business in calstock if you charge you will put off people coming into the village too support us I don’t see where you spend money on car park as it still floods and as for electrical car there are few it would not be variable too put them in and I think you will anger the residents as you did last time there are lots of us who have too use the car park for our cars so please not do this for us all in calstock thanks
Presumably the costings exercise, to charge in Calstock, will include experience of the previous attempt to install a parking machine?
And its replacement (twice, was it?) after Calstockians vandalised it.
So at least three machines ought to be budgeted for, maybe more depending on when you give up…
The Parish Council has not made any decision on whether to carry out a costings exercise or consider charging in Calstock.
If you decide to charge for the car parking, would there be an annual subscription option local residents like myself, could pay. I live in the bottom half of the village and depend on parking here. If we did have subscription parking would we be covered/honoured during busy times, ie Bike Show, Regattas, normal summer weekends when parking is a total nightmare. Would there actually be sufficient bays set aside for locals who have paid for them. I actually would welcome this as I find parking during these times stressful.
Calstock Parish Council have not made any decisions on whether to consider looking into charges at Calstock as yet
As previously stated, this would require very careful consideration and not something the council have agreed to.