Petition to stop Caerphilly Council charging for car parking at Country parks

I can walk anywhere but it is a much better experience all round to walk somewhere that has a decent path , no noise , fumes or dust from traffic.

One of the sites has a fishing lake , I know a lot of retired people fish there pretty much daily and they've recently bought membership for the season , no one told them it will cost them £3 a day to park there.

Old_Git wrote: »

They need to raise revenue and implement cutbacks and do as the rest off us do and live within our means.This is one way to do it .

Another way would be to cut down / stop the functions they put on for the Mayor / Councillors etc all free food and as much booze as you can drink :beer: but that's not going to happen anyday soon.

I'm guessing that you are not from the area or have any knowledge of how this Council has been run ?

A council chief has been charged with misconduct in a public office after his £132,000 annual pay went up by £26,000.
Anthony O’Sullivan, 54, is said to have written a report recommending the rise.
Other staff on Caerphilly council were given 1% as part of austerity measures.

Chief executive Michael Anthony O'Sullivan and his deputy, Nigel Barnett, will appear in Bristol Magistrates Court court on April 22

Pay rises of up to 30% for 21 senior council bosses were agreed by a secret committee of councillors in September 2012. The committee had approved the pay deal after being recommended to do so in a report penned by Mr O’Sullivan

They send all residents a regular paper / newsletter , have a twitter feed and facebook page that are all always full of self praise for doing things that they should be doing anyway but there has been no mention of this plan in the paper , twitter or facebook nor have I seen any mention of it elsewhere apart from the website linked above and any objections have to be in by 25th April, no doubt it's been kept quiet so they can push it through and say hardly anyone objected to it.

They are aiming to raise £80,000 from this but I cannot see how that's going to work.

These parks are in remote locations and the meters are sure to get vandalised , I suppose they will then install CCTV , how much will that cost ?

Some of the sites have roads leading to the car parks where people might park for free , no doubt the Council will paint double yellows everywhere but again , how much will the planning , approval , actual work etc cost ?

If they do this then why can't they install parking meters at the Council offices as well and make the staff pay for parking their cars there ? many others have to pay to park their cars while in work why can't they ?

There's one Office near to me , there must be at least 200 cars there daily ( There's a Council run public car park a few hundred metres away and you have to pay to park there ) charge them a £1 a day, £48,000 a year from one car park , they also have a much bigger office elsewhere so it would raise a lot more.