Bay Life believes that we will be seeing pay and display car parking in Pevensey Bay within 18 months and that parking will be decriminalised.—Bay Life 6 October 2017
Pay and Display coming to Pevensey Bay within eighteen months
Our attention has been drawn to a particular job opportunity, with the person now appointed. Part of the remit in the role will be, we believe, an analysis of the patterns of parking here in detail. We believe that the appointment has been made in preparation for the possibility of pay and display.
On 17 March 2017 Wealden Council said “Wealden’s free parking policy in existing town and village car parks will remain unchanged, but Cabinet members agreed that a ‘do-nothing’ policy when it came to on-street parking enforcement in town centres was no longer acceptable to the public.
Council Leader Bob Standley said it was regrettable that Sussex Police, who are responsible for on-street parking in Wealden, had made it clear they would no longer enforce it, particularly as the amount of council tax precept the police received from Wealden was the second largest in Sussex.
He added “The Cabinet decision means we will look at all the options to enforce illegal on-street parking including whether this is funded by Wealden or the County Council,” said Cllr Standley.
The possibility, in the view of Bay Life, is that if pay and display is coming to Pevensey Bay, that there will be a great number of questions about the basis on which money raised will go towards the community .
Outside the Fish and Chip shop in Pevensey Bay our source said, “you are talking about shedloads of money, you see those pavements and curbs, all of that will be done”.
The Bay Life view is that shedloads of money from pay and display in Pevensey Bay could also fund, perhaps the very best community venture library in any small coastal location in East Sussex.
