How would you like to pay £250 a year to park at work? No, then how about using Cornwall's "wonderful" public transport instead? Read this http://tinyurl.com/2vlb5gg and tell other Bude people what you think. But, please remember this is a family site!!

This was an idea that was mooted some time ago but it was intended as a means of cutting congestion NOT (sorry for shouting) to raise revenue. On my 20 mile drive to work each morning I meet, on average 4 cars - not a lot of congestion there! I would take public transport if it existed but, as Stephen Blake says, our wonderful system is there to help the occasional rural daytime shopper, not to serve the vast majority of people for whom a car is an absolute necessity.
If - heaven forbid - it is actually gets passed, it will be imposed on the employer; what happens then? Do they absorb it and thereby become less financially sound, threatening jobs or do they pass it on to the employee? That is the likely route but how do you do that fairly when some employees work different hours/days and, if it is first come, first served - may not even be able to use the facility. The main result is likely to be a vast increase in on-road parking and congestion - but isn't that what it was supposed to alleviate??

Councils, yuk! A few years ago they all pulled the parking not free on Sundays any more scam and caught a lot of people. More recently there were contradictory parking signs at Crooklets. Two people that I know were scammed whilst having a walk on the beach. Even worse was the fact that a council employee in a white van watched them read the old sign but said nothing. I think I'd have had my day in court if they'd done it to me. Plymouth is even worse as when a friend took his registered-blind mother for a walk on The Hoe he was given a parking ticket because her disabled badge was displayed upside down. The old badges didn't even say "display this side up" and how is a person with very poor vision going to be able to read it? Perhaps one side of these badges should have a patch of sandpaper affixed so that visually impaired people can tell which way up the badge is. As to the driver it wasn't his badge so how was he expected to know the covert ins and outs of using it? Allegedly the head of Plymouth Council gets paid over £200K so they really do need the money!