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The definitive list of every location the Isle of Wight council are planning to charge you £1 to park in the evening. Each street, road and car park, to help you avoid unwanted parking tickets.
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Isle of Wight council are leading with "We're not increasing daily parking charges", sweetening the pill for their new and increased parking changes in other areas.
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The Isle of Wight councillor who introduced the removal of many free car parks and increased parking charges has himself been freely parking on double yellow lines. We've got the photos. I asked him at a public meeting - he didn't deny it.
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OnTheWight asked for details of how much it would cost the council to introduce parking charges in areas where it was previously free. That's revealed some costs are unknown to IWC.
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Below is the list of responses Islanders sent to the council about the proposed parking increases that Officers decided weren't ‘valid objections’.
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Papers for next week's Executive meeting of the Isle of Wight council reveal the size of public objection to the proposed changes to parking charges.
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18 days after the closing date, the council claims they don't have a finalised figure of the number of people who wrote to them. How likely do you think that is?
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Is it legal for the council to use the income from car parking to pay for anything other that just running their car parking operation?
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We asked for clarification. Richard responded. Do you have a better understanding now?
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If the proposed changes to parking charges go ahead, legal action, as well the possible removal of Councillors and Officers, will be explored say Ryde Business Association (RBA)
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The Island Conservatives say the Independents "gave no clear vision of why they may be planning to significantly increase parking revenue in a piecemeal way".
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In follow-up to yesterday's 'What’s happened to Richard Priest’s pre-election promise on parking?' article, here's the elongated response OnTheWight received from him today
