Petition to stop Caerphilly Council charging for car parking at Country parks

A question about : Petition to stop Caerphilly Council charging for car parking at Country parks

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This is disgusting, setting charges for using our countryside! I thought we were trying to encourage people to walk and exercise.

I've sent a letter of objection and just signed the petition Caerphilly County Borough Council: Say No to implementing car parking charges at our local open spaces and countryside walks in Caerphilly Borough. on Change.org.

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• I can walk anywhere but it is a much better experience all round to walk somewhere that has a decent path , no noise , fumes or dust from traffic.
  One of the sites has a fishing lake , I know a lot of retired people fish there pretty much daily and they've recently bought membership for the season , no one told them it will cost them Ј3 a day to park there.
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• Didn't realise Old Git was a Caerphilly County Councillor!
  I understand the times we live in but when CBCC continually waste money they've got a nerve to say that money needs to be raised to make up the shortfall.
  I too can't understand where they've plucked this figure of Ј80,000 from.
  As there are 5 parks affected, then that's an average of Ј16,000 per park per year. That therefore assumes that there will be 444 cars parked there per day every day. I can assure you that in the depths of winter that you'd be lucky to get 44 cars up the park that I frequent!
  I agree Wayne - the meters are going to get vandalised as soon as they're there.
  There was a rumour back in March that these charges were going to be coming in and I emailed CBCC then and guess what -it took them a month to tell me what, by then, I already knew and they conveniently ignored specific questions that I asked?
  Totally agree with the Council charging for staff car parking though & it will be interesting to look the expenses of those councillors who vote this in.
• Would also add, if this does go ahead then what's to stop CBCC introducing charges at 'normal' parks???
• You can always depend on CCBC to put it's citizens first sorry , I meant look after those with their noses in the trough.
  Before the meeting where the cuts were discussed CCBC put out a survey asking the public where they thought cuts should be made.
  381 (51.1%) voted for making cuts to Countryside Services (country parks, educational schemes etc) and 365 (48.9%) voted agains making cuts.
  737 (96.1%) voted for making cuts to Mayoral functions while 30 (3.9%) voted against
  Over 96% of the voters wanted cuts made to Mayorial functions so that would be the first place they look into making cuts right ?
  The problem is , I've read through all the proposals and I cannot see any mention of any proposed cuts or limits to the number of the functions get another one in mate , we're not paying for them.
• The council are obviously annoyed that their plan is being opposed.....apparently they've taken down all the notices encouraging people to object to the charges as no permission was given to put them up.
  But guess what ? They won't give permission for these notices to go up.