Travel to Work Group report - Appendix H

An all pay & display car park scheme

The table below shows the income and expenditure account for the scheme if all car parks were converted to a pay & display regime. The scheme would cost in excess of £100,000 to set up compared to the recommended scheme, with the additional expenditure on pay & display equipment. Over the three year period (1999-2002), the scheme would produce a £19,000 deficit, leaving the University little better off than the current situation.

An all reserved car park scheme

The table below shows the income and expenditure account for an all reserved permit parking scheme. The scheme would be cheaper to implement than the recommended scheme as no pay and display equipment would need to be purchased or maintained. Over the three year period (1999-2002), the scheme would produce a £357,000 surplus for the University, £192,000 more than the recommended scheme. Despite the substantially larger surplus for the University, the Working Group has not recommended an all reserved car parking scheme, for the reasons listed below.

An all reserved parking scheme would not address the parking problems at the University and would probably compound them. There would be no incentive for staff who had a parking permit to reduce the number of days they drove to work, unlike the marginal charging structure of a predominantly pay and display scheme. It is also questionable whether all the parking permits would be purchased at the proposed prices, as staff who did not wish to drive to work everyday would be unlikely to spend £400 or £500 on a parking permit. There would be no parking provision for the large number of staff who only occasionally wish to park at work; no opportunity to generate revenue outside the University working day and there would be no parking provision for visitors.