Leicester City Council in consultation on the potential introduction of a workplace parking levy for the city to encourage car commuters to consider other modes of transport, and to provide a sustained funding source to implement the sustainable transport measures proposed in the draft Leicester Transport Plan.
The scheme being considered will be similar to the levy in Nottingham city and would mean that employers would be charged a levy on commuter car parking spaces. Any workplace parking levy payments received could only be spent on transport improvements.
The parking levy will be £550 a year per space and any business that has 10 or more parking spaces would have to pay the levy. This includes the NHS (hospitals), schools and colleges, and GP surgeries.
This could affect many of the villages surrounding the city boundaries, including Anstey in my division. The village could suffer from dispersed parking in the area by workers trying to avoid paying the levy. I would urge people to respond to the consultation by the deadline date to have their say.
The formal consultation is currently available here: https://consultations.leicester.gov.uk/sec/wpl/ and the closing date is 13th March 2021. If taken forward, the workplace parking levy will require approval by the Secretary of State for Transport. Workplace parking levy receipts would contribute to delivery of the Leicester Transport Plan projects post 2024.
