FUTURE TRENDS
Cashing inon a green future
DECRIMINALISATION OF PARKING AND THE CONGESTION CHARGE WERE TWO OF THE BIGGEST CHANGES TO TRAFFIC REGULATIONS IN RECENT YEARS. SARAH JUGGINS LOOKS AT TWO PARKING TRENDS PROMISING TO DOMINATE THE HEADLINES
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Civil Parking and Bus Lane Enforcement Services Tender
4 April 2011 – 3 April 2016 (plus up to 2 years extension). Tender reference: TC165
Bolton Council invites suitably experienced and professional companies to tender for the provision of Civil Parking and Bus Lane Enforcement Services throughout the borough.
The contract will commence on Monday 4 April 2011 and will be for a five year period with an option to extend for a further period of up to two years.
To register interest and download documents for this contract please visit The Chest tender portal
www.thechest.nwce.gov.uk
All relevant documents will be available to download from Friday 24 September 2010 and must be returned electronically by 7pm on Thursday 4 November 2010.
Further information is also available from the Council’s website.
www.bolton.gov.uk 40 SEPTEMBER 2010
he workplace levy (WPL) is almost certain to be introduced across a number of cities in the next few years and, like the congestion charge, it will be a controversial talking point. With Nottingham due to impose WPL in 2012,
motoring organisations and business leaders are already expressing their concern at the plans. Despite suggestions that the Coalition government would scrap the plans, there is widespread belief that councils are considering the charge in an attempt to raise funds. Speaking to the Daily Telegraph, Professor Stephen Glaister, director
of the RAC Foundation, expressed concern that so many councils were considering levies. He said: ‘Councils have had the power to impose workplace parking levies for a decade now, to deal with congestion. ‘T ere will be a lot of raised eyebrows that so many are considering
introducing the levy in the middle of a fi nancial crisis.’ Nottingham City Council will be the fi rst council to impose a £250
levy on local employers from 2012. Within two years, the bill will rise to £350 and will target all companies with 11 or more parking spaces. Among other councils considering the WPL are Bristol City Council, Cambridge, Milton Keynes, Oxford and York.
A green future Less controversial is the installation of charging points for electric and hybrid vehicles. Under an £11m development plan, nine cities and towns in the UK are to have charging points installed under an initiative from the Energy Technologies Institute (ETI). Birmingham, Coventry, Glasgow, London, Middlesbrough, Milton
Keynes, Oxford, Newcastle and Sunderland will be the fi rst to benefi t from the scheme, which will eventually go national. A number of trials are already underway. T e aim is to have 50,000 electric vehicles on the road by 2015, but present technology limits even the most advanced units to 150 miles from a two-hour charge. Transport for London (TfL) has also set plans in motion to provide
electric options. It is part of a consortium of partners that secured £5.3m from Plugged in Places (PiP) to deliver electric vehicle charge points in the capital. Year one funding has been secured by TfL, One North East and Milton Keynes. TfL expects car park operators, universities, NHS car parks and local authorities to be interested in tapping into the funding.
www.britishparking.co.uk
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