Cross party support comes after town centre sees significant DROP in vehicles using the town centre & fears the loss of the free parking subsidy will impact local businesses.
Fri 24th Feb 2023 17:38pm
Eighteen Councillors have signed a letter calling upon the Tees Valley Mayor to rethink the decision to remove the subsidy that led to shoppers in Hartlepool given free parking which many business say was a 'lifeline' that's now been taken away....
It comes after calls from the Labour party MP candidate for Hartlepool Jonathan Brash laid down proposals for the letter to be sent to the Tees Valley Mayor at yesterdays full council meeting, following claims businesses in Hartlepool are already feeling the devastating impact of the cost of living crisis & crippling energy costs.
The letter put forward by Laborur Councillor Jonathan Brash was supported by a number of Independents as well as a small number of conservatives
The letter was signed by all Labour Councillors as well as a number of Independents and a small number of conservatives, one of which is set to defend their seat in May's local council elections, however its claimed eighteen councillors supporting the proposals may be enough to convince the Tees Valley Combined Authority to rethink their decision on the removal of the subsidy after Hartlepool Matters has found that the numbers of vehicles using the areas Middleton Grange Shopping Centre Car Parks has dropped dramatically since the announcement by the local council was made earlier this month that the free parking would come to an end.....
In his letter Cllr Brash said that a portion of the funding set aside for the creation of the Mayoral Development Corporation that's set to plough significant funding into the town could potentially be used to reinstate the free parking in the town centre and provide much needed support to local businesses in the area, with Cllr Brash also noting that the Tees Valley Mayor had recently opposed parking charges in areas such as Preston Park in Stockton On Tees...
"Spot the passenger" Tees Flex is dubbed a huge waste of public funds that could have been better spent elsewhere many claim....
The tees Valley Mayor had recently approved a £1.8 Million Pound extension of the controvesial Tees Flex bus scheme dubbed “spot the passenger” by its critics, who claim the bus service since its creation has hemmoraged public funds to such an extent that the money ploughed into the service could have restored bus services across most of the boroughs where subsidies had originally been removed by local councils, branding the scheme one of the most useless vanity projects since the Hartlepool “cafe in the crem” saga seen some years ago....
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