No regrets: Nottingham backs benefits of pioneering workplace parking levy

It is almost three years since Nottingham City Council introduced its ground-breaking workplace parking levy as a way of raising revenues for transport improvements in the city. Jason Gooding, Nottingham City Council’s parking manager, tells Deniz Huseyin how the scheme has bedded in

How Clifton town centre will look when the tram line opens

How Clifton town centre will look when the tram line opens

When Nottingham’s workplace parking levy (WPL) was launched in April 2012 it had a good many detractors among the city’s business community. Firms complained that the scheme would erode their profit margins and Nottingham’s biggest company, Boots, threatened to move its 3,000 parking spaces outside the city boundary to avoid paying the levy.

But, more than two years on, most of the misgivings about the scheme appear to have subsided. And, importantly, the WPL is fulfilling its...

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