COMPANIES AND PEOPLE
NEWS
APT EV CHARGING INNOVATION
Q-PARK/PURPLE PARTNERSHIP
All Q-Park customers are to get discounted UK airport parking following the appointment of Purple Parking as the company’s official airport parking provider. The new partnership also sees Q-Park become official city centre parking provider for Purple Parking, offering its customers a discounted rate when pre-booking city centre parking through Q-Park’s online booking service. Customers can pre-pay and are guaranteed a space in their chosen car park.
Both companies strive to ensure a safe and secure parking experience with extensive CCTV coverage and good lighting. Regular patrols are conducted by Q-Park hosts, with strict pedestrian entry procedures requiring a parking ticket for access at many sites. Purple Parking sites are manned 24/7, and customers can choose from packages ranging from meet and greet, including a chauffeur service, to park and ride, with shuttle bus transfers between car park and airport terminal.
ANPR FREE-PARKING TRIAL A trial two-hour free parking system, provided by Creative Parking and enforced by ANPR cameras, is now operating from 8am-7pm Monday to Saturday, and 9am-5pm on Sunday, in Smithfield Shopping Centre, Whitchurch, Shropshire.
The project follows an appeal for a new management system from shopping centre tenants. They believe footfall has been drastically affected by both commuter abuse and vehicle overstaying, further exacerbated by
TOTAL GROWTH
Total Car Parks has acquired seven new car parks around the UK, boosting the East Anglian-based company’s growth to more than 50 per cent in the past two years. The firm now holds more than 30 sites in Suffolk, Essex, Norfolk, Lancashire and Yorkshire, with further developments planned for other counties. Essy Eslamian, managing director of Total Car Parks comments: ‘It’s a very exciting time
www.britishparking.co.uk
for the company; we’re incredibly pleased with our development. We have remained consistent with our targeted growth, enabling us to expand the number of locations in our portfolio, and to welcome new staff members to the Total Car Parks’ team. ‘We fully expect to continue growing, simply because we have the determination to make it happen.’
a town-centre weekly market sited just metres from the car park. Shopping centre tenants include
Home Bargains, Iceland and Coral Group. The system, which went live in June, will be on trial for 36 months.
Rapid growth of EV ownership across the Midlands has prompted installation of pioneering electric vehicle (EV) Evolt charging points from APT Technologies at a £100m technology park near Birmingham.
The Innovation Centre at Longbridge
Technology Park, developed by regeneration specialists St Modwen, is home to nearly 50 technology- based local, national and international businesses.
Its new APT charging points were officially launched at a recent event attended by park tenants and presented by Ed Russell, chief executive of Co-operative Web – the centre’s first occupant. A Peugeot iOn electric hybrid car was available for test drive to demonstrate the Evolt charging points, billed as: robust and versatile with dual charging outlets; and simple to access and use with an intelligent tamper-proof opening mechanism.
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