Free parking perk to lure shoppers.(News)

Coventry Evening Telegraph (England);  November 8, 2000 ;     251 words ......being offered free parking in Nuneaton...Christmas. Council chiefs hope...stores. The free parking will operate in all the council's pay and display...credit to the council for making...in offering free parking if people don...

Free parking at Christmas; INCENTIVE: Council encourages...

Coventry Evening Telegraph (England);  October 17, 2006 ;     236 words ......repeat last year's free parking as an incentive...would cost the council between pounds...emphasised it was the council, and not other...were approving the free parking. He said: It's the city council that's forgoing...it's the city council that's playing Santa Claus ...

NEW BID TO SCRAP FREE PARKING; Civic Centre perk for staff and councillors...

Evening Chronicle (Newcastle, England);  November 9, 2007 ;     367 words ......failed. The city council has been accused...hypocrisy by issuing free parking passes to hundreds...staff who enjoy free parking use their cars on council business at least...question at the city council asking when free parking is to be scrapped...

End of free parking riles drivers, firms

The Press;  February 14, 2002 ;     450 words ......scrap the one- hour free parking scheme in the central city. The city council's sustainable transport...because of the free parking. Ending the scheme...businesses. The council says it wants to...Ballantyne said the free parking had been a great...is whether the ...

Free parking undermines green drive; Council chiefs under fire.(News)

Evening Chronicle (Newcastle, England);  February 20, 2008 ;     421 words ......long-running wrangle over free parking. Plans by Newcastle Council to cut greenhouse...Democrat-run city council still issues 361 free parking passes after plans...Many staff who get free parking use their cars on council business at least...

Free parking expires due to blow-out

The Press;  February 13, 2002 ;     337 words ...The days of free parking in central Christchurch...an end. The city council's sustainable transport...way beyond the council's expectations...mean the end of free parking in the central...too much of the council and ratepayers...against offering free parking in the ...

Council seeking more land for free parking

The Nelson Mail;  October 9, 2003 ;     311 words ...The Tasman District Council has set aside $400,000 for...promotional agency touts its free parking and has a sly dig at Nelson...save their spare cash. "The free parking is a big selling...Marilyn Gibbs said Richmond's free parking probably did give...was used by the Nelson City ...

PARKING ROW; Residents and shoppers are unaware of free parking...

South Wales Echo (Cardiff, Wales);  December 21, 2001 ;     365 words ......shoppers on Bridgend County Council's free parking fortnight. Motorists...any confusion. But a council spokesman said the free parking scheme had been extensively...parking tickets in the council's free parking fortnight. Inset, parking...

No movement on free parking bid ; Hopes of a New Year's free parking...

Herald Express (Torquay UK);  January 8, 2008 ;     554 words ......Members of the council top executive...setting up the free parking scheme but they...man behind the free parking scheme is still...persuade the council to agree to his free parking ideas - and start...Erme Valley councillor Mark Lawrence...happened again the ...

Counting the cost; Staff's free parking to be scrapped.(News)

Evening Chronicle (Newcastle, England);  June 28, 2008 ;     441 words ......The argument over free parking for selected staff...Labour ran the council. The Lib Dems introduced...cars regularly on council business will continue to get free parking. But around 380...challenges. The council's Lib Dem leader...staff do not get free parking ...

Pray and display; Free parking is axed for churchgoers because it is...

The Daily Mail (London, England);  November 8, 2006 ;     522 words ...Byline: JAMES MILLS FREE parking for Christian churchgoers...been scrapped by a city council - because it discriminates...believed this annoyed the council, which reacted by imposing...half drive to church, the council will rake in an extra...Andrew's, accused the council of using ...

Free parking gift offered to shoppers

Gloucestershire Echo, The;  November 10, 2007 ;     444 words ......will be tempted to Tewkesbury with free parking in the run-up to Christmas to help...from the floods. Tewkesbury Borough Council is spending pounds87,500 of its flood recovery grant on providing free parking in its car parks on the weekends starting...measure was agreed by Tewkesbury ...

End of the road for free parking? ; Dents their days of free parking in...

Western Daily Press (Bristol UK);  April 23, 2008 ;     467 words ......their days of free parking in the Forest...the district council says it is...country with free parking, had been dropped...But the Tory council leader says...tradition of free parking in the market towns. Council leaders claim...

Free parking to be ditched.(News)

Evening Chronicle (Newcastle, England);  September 20, 2005 ;     392 words ......A 50p fee for council staff Free parking perks for hundreds of Newcastle Council staff could soon...battle. The city council plans to introduce...who now enjoy free parking. Officials have...to reduce the council's annual pounds...Centre staff enjoy free ...

Free parking or not, downtown project doesn't fly.(News)

Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL);  November 2, 2005 ;     347 words ......Staff Writer The lure of free parking was not enough to persuade Naperville's city council to approve a contentious...issue and agreed the free parking offer likely would be...still bothers me, said Councilman Kenn Miller. And parking...