Cornwall Council changed the tariff on 1 April meaning that anyone parking will have to pay £31.50 if they stay longer than three hours.
Shop owners in Truro have hit out at new parking charges which means anyone parking for more than three hours will have to pay £31.50.
The council said it made the move to dissuade a “significant number” of motorists from “clogging up” the car park.New parking charges came into force on 1 AprilSpencer Morris runs Gallery No 2 in St Mary’s Mews. He said: “I know it’s affecting trade there now – the car park is almost empty at the moment. It never would have been like that before they changed the tariff.
Paul Gilbert who runs one of Truro’s coffee shops, Kaku Chi, which is also in the mews, said he was guilty of parking there all day too and was often happy to pay the £25 fine for going over the three-hour limit, simply because it made trade easier without the need for parking further away from the business.Paul says the future of his business is also struggling following a poor winter.
“This has been recently discussed with Cornwall Council, where it was requested to tone down the number of red warning signs on display now that the message hopefully has been received, not to overstay. "We were finding that a significant number of motorists were parking here all day and essentially clogging up the car park when its purpose is to encourage a turnover of spaces and in turn increase footfall to the city centre. To address this and dissuade motorists from overstaying the three-hour limit, an ‘up to 24hr’ tariff has been introduced.
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