On-street parking charges in Brighton are due to rise by up to 300pc on July 17.
The move comes less than two months after Labour wrested control of the council from the Greens, who ran a minority administration since 2020 until earlier this year and presided over a string of increases in the cost of parking in the city for visitors and permit-holding residents. She blamed “incompetence” of Green Party council policies for a £3 million “black hole” in the city’s finances which the new administration is working overtime to plug, and of which the loss in parking revenue forms a significant part.īrighton and Hove City Council has now announced an “urgent review” into further planned increases that would see residents, including hospital workers and elderly residents, paying four times more for parking in some parts of the city. Increases to parking fees imposed by the Green Party in Brighton cost the city more than £1m over three years, as day trippers were put off from visiting.īella Sankey, a Labour councillor in Brighton, said the popular tourist destination had suffered a £1.2m fall in parking revenue despite the Greens “consistently hiking parking charges over the years”, as the higher costs scared off drivers.
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