Mayfair Parking

Monday, September 12th, 2011

On the 9th of September Westminster City Council (WCC) confirmed their proposals for decreasing the hours yellow line parking is allowed plus increasing the rate and duration of metered parking for the E zone of Mayfair car parking. The increase of revenue is estimated at £1M p.a. for a one off implementation cost of £350K.

Although the inflationary increase is 10% since 2009, the extended time issues are radical with the banning of parking on yellow lines until midnight and the extensions for meters for a similar time except on Sundays until 6 pm.

The new rate of £4.80 per hour will be discounted on Monday to Thursday by 50% from 6:30 till midnight.

WCC maintain that this initiative is to curb congestion in Mayfair but it has stirred up grave concerns from both residents and businesses in the area. Issued residents’ parking permits have increased from 546 in 2009-10 to 1,222 in 2010-11. Currently residents not being able to find a residents car parking space in the evening either park on a yellow line or free on a meter. Both these options are being taken away.

Service industry businesses rely on some of their staff using their car for evening work as they leave late in the night. Will these extra costs be passed on to the dwindling customer base who resent the new costs of evening parking?

Source: Wetherell newsletter September 2011