From: Councillor Craske, Peter [mailto:Peter.Craske@bexley.gov.uk]
Sent: 09 September 2010 14:19
To: *** ******
Subject: RE: Parking Permit charges.
The figures break down as below. The reason I know we run at a loss of £300k is
because we have put together a full report establishing all those costs. CPZs
are very expensive to set up and maintain and we cannot simply carry on
subsiding them in the times we are now in. It is not just CPZs, there are range
of things we are applying the same principles. For example, we have said we will
no longer use public money to subsidise town centre Christmas lights, so if town
centres like Welling or Sidcup or anywhere else want to have lights they must
pay for them themselves at the full cost. For too long, rightly or wrongly, we
have contributed over 2/3rds of the cost, from which the council itself receives
no benefit and we will no longer provide that level of support, in fact no
support. Welling traders though have already committed the money to pay for the
lights, so some town centres are just getting on with it.
The number of permits issued in 09/10:
3081 permits in total were bought
Business - 25 three-monthly and 168 annual
Resident - 372 three-monthly and 2516 annual
The breakdown of costs is:
| Employee costs | 258,000 |
| Permit Cost production | 49,000 |
| Traffic and Road Safety Schemes | 30,000 |
| Lining, markings | 36,000 |
| On street enforcement costs | 328,000 |
| ICT | 11,000 |
| Overheads/Accommodation | 71,200 |
| Total expenditure | 783,200 |
| Permit income | -170,000 |
| PCN income | -275,000 |
| Total income | -445,000 |
| Deficit | 338,200 |