Blackpool Parking Fees to Go Up?
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WEDNESDAY'S meeting of Blackpool Town CoUncil was due to discuss further suggestions that parking fees for coaches should be increased to provide more revenue during the
Cllr. H. W. Barnes claitited at last week's meeting of the council that the present coach parking fees were inadequate.
"On Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays of the seven Illuminations week-ends our income for parking fees at 3s. per coach was 4009. A charge of 7s. 6d. each coach would not discourage parties," he said. " More than 95 per cent, of the coaches that come here are booked privately, little, if any, direct cost would fall on the shoulders of the coach proprietors."
Cl1r. A. Drinkwater said he thought a good case could be made for a charge of 4s. or 5s. Another member recalled that he had previously suggested, on an estimate of 4,000 coaches coming to stay each week-end of the Illuminations, that a charge of El per coach, irrespective of whether it stayed one, two, or three nights, would bring in approximately £35,000.
[Estimated cost of the Illuminations next year is C94,000.]