Report of the Director of Community and Children’s Services.
Minutes:
Members considered a report of the Director of Community and Children’s Services in respect of a charging policy for car parking and storage. At the meeting of the BRC on 4 June 2018, Members agreed that the Car Park Charges Working Party should convene a further meeting to consider the representations from Members, residents and officers. The Working Party met on 11th June 2018 and the report before Members today comprised an overview of its considerations and recommendations.
Following the discussion and questions, the Chairman advised that many of the points raised had been addressed at the Working Party. Furthermore, three of the recommendations in the report; covering an Equalities Impact Assessment, short-term parking by visitors, tradesmen and ‘others’, free parking periods and the provision of concierge and related services had been referred to the Working Party for further consideration, before coming back to the BRC for decision.
The following points were also noted.
On putting the recommendations to the vote, the following final points were raised:
RESOLVED, that:
1. The Barbican car park charge, per parking space and for the ensuing year, be increased to £1,340 per annum, subject to a review in one year.
2. Officers be instructed to carry out an Equalities Impact Assessment and report back to the Working Party, so that recommendations as to whether a reduced charge should apply to disabled or similar users and, if so, what the reduction should be.
3. Officers be asked to consider whether the provision of free short-term parking by visitors, tradesmen and others, could, and if so should, be allocated to the service charge account, and whether the free period of parking should be altered, and report to a future meeting of the Working Party.
4. Officers be asked to consider how an adjustment can be made, consistent with complying with the lessor’s obligations and service charge provisions within the leases, in the way concierge and related services are provided and charged, and to make recommendations to the Working Party to consider, prior to it making recommendations to the BRC.
5. The rents for stores within Barbican buildings (that is, stores not constructed in the car parks) be increased to £25.00 per square foot, per annum (which are all classed as small/standard stores) and be subject to review after one year.
6. The rents of all existing stores within the car parks be increased to £20.00 per square foot per annum.
7. The increase of rents for existing stores in the car parks, currently let to existing users, be phased in over over a three-year period and that they be let at £14.00 per square foot, per annum for the ensuing year.
8. Rents for the new stores, to be constructed in the car parks, be charged at £20.00 per square foot, per annum and subject to review after one year.
9. Agree the lettings policy for the new stores in the car parks in order that:
a) stores be first offered to Barbican residents and not offered to non-Barbican residents, for at least 6 months after the first letting of a new store;
b) the minimum Barbican resident use of the new stores be set at 90 per cent (subject to review and depending on the take up of the new stores);
c) non-resident users be restricted to City residents whose home is not more than one half mile from the entrance to the car parks containing the store such residents would use;
d) the minimum rent to be charged to non-resident users be set at £40.00, including VAT, per square foot per annum, subject to review;
e) officers be instructed to finalise the management plan and submit it to the planning authority for approval.
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