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Concern over proposals for new workplace parking levies
11 April 2022
Proposals to enforce new workplace parking levies in more than 12 towns and cities in England could see employees charged for driving to work.
Businesses operating within a city centre could be charged up to £1,000 per parking space they own each year. Concerns are now rising over the potential for this to result in charges for employees using the spaces.
The proposed levies are intended to reduce traffic congestion and pollution, as well as raising money which will be reinvested into projects for sustainable public transport.
So far, Nottingham is the only city in England to have enforced such levies (£428 per space) but Bath, Birmingham, Brighton, Bristol, Cambridge, Colchester, Leicester, Luton, Norwich, Oxford, Warrington and the London boroughs of Hounslow and Camden could follow suit.
The current proposed charges by region are as follows:
- Up to £1,000 in Cambridge and the London Borough of Hounslow
- £550 in Leicester
- £400 in Bristol
- From April, Nottingham’s levies will rise to £458 in line with inflation.
RAC roads policy chief Nicholas Lyes said, “The cost will almost certainly be passed down to workers, so in effect it becomes a tax on a person going to work.
“This especially affects lower-paid workers who may not have any other way of getting to work.”
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