Agenda item

Report of the Acting Director of Community and Children’s Services (copy attached).

Members noted that the Barbican Estate Office had been looking at efficiencies in delivering the temporary car parking service.  This report proposed that an Automated Payment System (credit and debit card payment using text, touch-tone, internet and mobile web technology) be introduced in the car parks.  The new service would provide a convenient way to pay for parking but was not yet intended to replace the current ticketing/invoicing system.  A Member asked how this might be reflected in next year’s budget and suggested it should be cost-neutral to the City. 

RESOLVED, that:

1.        An automated payment system for temporary parking be introduced, to be reviewed after one year.

2.        The service costs for implementing the new payment technology, payable to the service provider, be paid by the Barbican Estate Office, by way of a small service charge for each transaction.

The Barbican Estate Office reduce the current daily temporary car parking charge for those customers that use this service by £1 (from £9.20 to £8.20) as an incentive to use the service. (The charge to be reviewed in line with the Car Park Charging Policy – please see Car Park Charging report January/February 2013).