A car park conundrum: Repair, demolish or rebuild?

North Somerset Council seeks solutions to troubled Weston-Super-Mare multi-storey car park

The partial closure of a defective multi-storey car park is costing North Somerset Council a quarter of a million pounds a year. The upper floors of the Carlton Street car park in Weston-super-Mare have been closed since late 2023 due to a number of problems.

North Somerset is paying £500,000 a year to rent Carlton Street car park, which is meant to have 350 spaces, in a lease that runs until 2058. The council made a loss of £269,000 last financial year because the upper floors have...

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