{"id":23377,"date":"2019-03-08T17:34:55","date_gmt":"2019-03-08T17:34:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/?p=23377"},"modified":"2019-03-08T17:34:55","modified_gmt":"2019-03-08T17:34:55","slug":"business-owners-call-for-free-parking-in-newport","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/cjsnews\/business-owners-call-for-free-parking-in-newport\/","title":{"rendered":"Business owners call for free parking in Newport"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Business owners are calling on Newport council to reinstate free parking for shoppers in the city centre.<\/strong><br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nIt currently costs \u00a32.00 to park in Newport Council owned car parks for up to three hours. This will increase to \u00a32.50 next month.<br \/>\nThe previous Conservative administration in the city introduced two hours free parking for shoppers in 2008, but this was scrapped when Labour were elected in 2013.<br \/>\nMarket traders in the city say that the cost parking puts people off coming into the city to shop. Butcher Michael Turner, who&#8217;s stall has been selling meats in Newport Market for three generations, told CJS News that small businesses are suffering.<br \/>\n&#8220;Any small business wants parking, its so transparent its unbelievable&#8230;<br \/>\n&#8220;City councillors, town councillors don&#8217;t want cars&#8230;It&#8217;s killing small businesses because people cannot nip in and pick up their shopping.&#8221;<br \/>\n<figure id=\"attachment_23399\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-23399\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-large wp-image-23399\" src=\"http:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/mpv-shot0002-700x394.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-23399\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-23399\" src=\"http:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/mpv-shot0002-700x394.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" \/><\/noscript> Michael Turner says the lack of free parking in Newport is &#8220;killing&#8221; small businesses.<\/figcaption><\/figure><br \/>\nBut other stallholders in Newport don&#8217;t believe that free parking is the main issue putting off shoppers from coming into the city centre.<br \/>\nMark Rogers, who runs Troutman&#8217;s Books, said the main issue was the fact that Newport&#8217;s offer as a city is &#8220;poor .<br \/>\n&#8220;It&#8217;s not good enough to attract people in. We have 20,000 people come in to the food festival once a year&#8230;They seem to be happy to come in, I hear no complaints about parking. The place is buzzing, because there&#8217;s something to come in to.&#8221;<br \/>\nIndependent Councillor Chris Evans represents the Rogerstone ward on Newport City Council. He told CJS News that &#8220;all the evidence&#8221; shows free parking helps support small businesses.<br \/>\n&#8220;Free parking leads to increased footfall. Over the year&#8217;s in Newport it&#8217;s become a huge political issue, and that&#8217;s a shame because the people that suffer are the residents and our wonderful city centre traders.<br \/>\n&#8220;They should look at creative solutions like maybe introducing free car parking on a Sunday, introducing free car parking after three o&#8217;clock so that workers&#8230;can come into the city centre&#8230;and not have to pay.&#8221;<br \/>\n<figure id=\"attachment_23398\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-23398\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-large wp-image-23398\" src=\"http:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/mpv-shot0001-700x394.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-23398\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-23398\" src=\"http:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/mpv-shot0001-700x394.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" \/><\/noscript> Councillor Chris Evans thinks that Newport City Council should use &#8220;creative&#8221; solutions to encourage more people to come into the city centre.<\/figcaption><\/figure><br \/>\nIn a statement, Newport Council said:<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">&#8220;Car parking charges are only one of a number of factors at play in influencing footfall and city centre vitality. Typical examples were, availability of spaces, proximity to destination, traffic flow, signage, retail offer and security.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">Current parking income not only supports the maintenance of off street parking assets. It also contributes to sustaining other council run city centre services against a backdrop of increasing demand and stakeholder expectation.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Business owners are calling on Newport council to reinstate free parking for shoppers in the city centre.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":228,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,6],"tags":[514,332,288,317,515,259],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-23377","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-latest","category-news","tag-chris-evans","tag-high-street","tag-newport","tag-newport-city-council","tag-rogerstone","tag-shopping"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.2 - 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