A £200 annual car parking permit is being introduced to benefit regular visitors to Gedling Country Park.
Gedling Borough Council plan to introduce an annual pass and also daily £2 parking charge at the attraction from April 1.
They announced that annual permits for Gedling Country Park will be £200 annually, which is equivalent to 55p per day or £55 per quarter, which is approximately 60p per day to park.
A spokesman for Gedling Borough Council said: “We previously announced that a £2 daily charge is to be introduced to help support the upkeep and maintenance of the park.
“We can now confirm that, following feedback from the consultation, permits and passes will also be available.”
Free permits will be given to the Trustees and Committee Members of Friends of Gedling Country Park
25 free permits will also be given to volunteers of both Gedling Junior and Gedling Park Run
The spokesman added: “We will be announcing details shortly on how people can apply for a permit before the charges commence on 1 April 2025.”
£200 is a crazy figure and will only deter people, I hope they think again and come up with a more sensible figure. The BBC story gives the example of the longer established Rushcliffe country park at £55. The Council should be encouraging/maximisng usage of the park (whilst covering the costs of the car park) and a figure around £50 would achieve this.
£200.00 is ridiculous in the extreme! It only works out at 60p per day if you visit the park every single day of the year, and how many people actually do that? If people visit twice a week at £2.00 per day that is about break even point. £200.00 is only beneficial to those who use the park more often than that.
I pay only £42.00 for an annual pass to Attenborough Nature Reserve which would otherwise cost £3.00 per day.
Do you want people to use and enjoy this park or send them elsewhere and get no income at all. You are pricing yourselves out of business
Robbing joke of a Council