Nottingham City Council’s leaders say 10 years of Workplace Parking Levies in the city have brought a raft of benefits and played a key part in putting the brakes on congestion.
The council is singing the praises of the scheme – which makes bigger companies pay for their parking spots – just as neighbouring Leicester City Council scrapped its own plans to avoid burdening businesses with added expense during the cost of living crisis.
Nottingham is the only city in Europe with a WPL in place, with companies which have 11 parking spaces or more for employees, visitors, students or pupils paying £458 per space, per year. The council said 100 per cent of companies affected had paid their share.
