Agenda - pdf - Selby District Council

To ensure essential maintenance work required at the Council’s leisure
facilities would be included in the Council’s capital programme to enable the
Council to discharge it’s duties as a landlord and ensure the facilities would
be maintained to an appropriate standard.
41. Review of Car Parking Fees
Councillor Metcalfe presented report E/11/29 which outlined the responses
received during the six week consultation on the proposed increase in Car
Park tariffs.
Councillor Metcalfe provided a summary of the responses received. He had
attended at Policy Review Committee on 26 July 2011 to listen to the
Committee’s views as part of the consultation. The Executive discussed the
recommendation from Policy Review Committee to remove car parking fees
in the four weeks leading up to Christmas. The Executive considered the
costs to the Council as being prohibitive.
Councillor Metcalfe proposed that car park fees should not be charged on
the two Saturdays leading up to Christmas for the next two years. This was
supported by the Executive.
Councillor Crane reiterated that car park charges within Selby District were
amongst the lowest within North Yorkshire.
Resolved:
(i)
(ii)
(iii)
To receive the comments from the consultation;
To approve the increase as outlined in the table in paragraph
2.6;
Not to implement car parking charges in Selby on the two
Saturdays leading up to Christmas for the next two years.
42. Private Session
Resolved:
In accordance with Section 100(A)(4) of the Local Government Act
1972 and in view of the nature of the business to be transacted, to
exclude the press and public from the meeting during discussion of
the following item as there was likely to be disclosure of exempt
information.
43. Request for Write-Off Industrial Unit Rent, Over £5000
Councillor Lunn presented report E/11/30 which outlined a request to write
off the balance of a debt outstanding for rental of an industrial unit.
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