- Council provides funds to help small businesses
- Financial help for keeping warm this winter
- Improve your health at York House
- Heathrow's airtrack train plan criticised
- Have your own say on Academies
- Mayor's Christmas invite
- Net closing on Council Tax cheats
- Step pedal jump your way to rugby!
- Borough has the lowest level of alcohol fueled crimes in London
- Play safe at Halloween warning
- Enjoy a week of entertainment at Heathfield centre
- Spreading the safety message
- New funding agreed to combat the recession
- Support your local lollipop person
- Disappointment as Boris' public transport costs rise
- Ham and Petersham win £100,000 for low carbon zone
- Borough children's favourite nursery rhyme revealed on Bookstart Day
- Eastender at East Sheen Library
- Destination Richmond
- Green fingers win prizes for winning allotments
- Free flood warnings for residents at risk in Richmond
- Huge turnout for older people's event
- RISE event success
- Best Cemetery Award for Richmond and East Sheen
- Take part in Black History Month celebrations
- World Sight Day celebrated
- Question time comes to Richmond
- 2M fears local people may loose out to Infrastructure Planning Commission (IPC)
- 1,000 people control their social care budgets
- £2.85 million for new homes
- Richmond Council confirms sponsor for Shene Academy
- Richmond Council extends CO2 parking
Release Date: 01/10/2009
Richmond Council extends CO2 parking
From 1 October Richmond Council is extending its groundbreaking CO2 related parking scheme to all Council on and off street parking in the borough. Under this new approach all cars that park in Richmond upon Thames will be charged according to how much CO2 their cars produce with lower rates for the least polluting vehicles.
Richmond upon Thames will be the first borough in the UK to introduce such a charging policy
Commenting on the new charging regime Cllr David Trigg Cabinet Member of Traffic Transport and Parking on Richmond Council said:
“It has taken us a while to get to where we can offer differential parking charges to all motorists parking in our bays and ground level car parks in the borough but I am delighted that we can now do this. And we hope to extend the scheme to our multi story car parks by the end of the year.
“The important thing under the new pricing structure is that over 60% of motorists stand to either gain or be no worse off. And the most expensive parking in our borough at around £3 per hour will still be modest when compared to charges at other world class destinations in our capital which can frequently be as much as £4 per hour. This simply is not going to stop visitors coming to Richmond upon Thames as some critics have suggested.
“We hope this scheme will encourage more motorists to drive less polluting cars and combined with the Richmond Card this is going to make parking in our borough easier and more convenient than ever before.”
The scheme also provides for ‘on street’ parking at just 20p for 20 minutes and for drivers of low/medium CO2 emitting cars it will be 10p for 20 minutes. On Thursday afternoons motorists will be able to park from 3.00pm for a flat charge of £1.50 or £1.00 for low/medium cars. It is hoped that both of these initiatives will help shops and the local economy in general.”
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