Parking will remain free at South Gloucestershire Council-run car parks and could soon be scrapped at Kings Chase shopping centre, under the authority’s annual budget.
Residents face a 2.99 per cent council tax increase, including one per cent for adult social care, while frontline services vital to communities will be protected despite a programme of savings totalling £9.5million in 2022/23 and £23.6million over the next four years.
A new park will be created in Cadbury Heath to mark the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee, with £12million allocated to potholes and road resurfacing next year and £25,000 spent to get the Tour of Britain cycle race to ride through the district in a bid to boost tourism.
