City parking charges set to rise

Prices are due to rise at city council-run car parks

Parking charges in parts of a city are due to rise in a bid to generate an extra £300,000, a council said.

Fees for surface and multi-storey car parks in Norwich - including St Andrews, St Giles and Rose Lane - will go up at the end of March, Norwich City Council said.

The new fees would result in most parking stays of between one and two hours going up by 10p or 20p.

The council said the extra income would help it avoid making cuts to services such as bin collections.

The changes to multi-storey charges include St Andrews, rising from £2.20 for an hour to £2.30, and £10.80 for more than five hours to £11.

In St Giles, prices for the same period are to go up from £2.20 to £2.30, and £16.10 to £16.40, the Local Democracy Reporting Service said.

Parking prices were frozen in Norwich for five years until 2022 when they were increased, and they rose again last January.

The increases across pay and display car parks vary, but the largest hike will be in Westwick Street, where the charge for more than five hours of parking will go from £7.00 to £7.60.

It will also cost £22.40 to stay for more than five hours in the Chantry, Chapelfield East, Monastery Court and Pottergate car parks.

Season ticket prices will also increase, but on-street residential parking permits will remain unchanged.

Emma Hampton, Labour deputy leader of the council, said the changes were a "last resort".

"With funding from central government dwindling, and the cost of things like energy and materials going up, we are under financial pressure to do more with less, like all local councils up and down the country," she said.