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Could Workplace Parking Levy raise extra revenue?
A conference to consider raising extra revenue for local councils through the use of the Workplace Parking Levy (WPL) has prompted fears that such a move would come at the expense of local companies.Today (30 September), the Local Government minister John Healey is due to attend a conference in London, which will discuss the possibility of a WPL being used as a source of income for councils.Cons...
News | 30 Sep 2008
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Could Workplace Parking Levy raise extra revenue?
This is a tax on Businesses, not workers. So unless your boss charges you for parking in the office car park, you won't pay directly. I'm concerned that they are calling it a congestion tax when it does nothing to ease congestion as it is not directly on the motorist - if it was it might work better at doing what it claims. It is just a way of making the LA more money, and they ar...
Comment | 6 Oct 2008
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Could Workplace Parking Levy raise extra revenue?
...(68%) of the City of Nottingham residents who took part..." It is inevitable that those who respond to these surveys are non - car driving, tree hugging, enviromentalists, whose primary mode of transport is a rattly old bicycle, or a stinking filthy polluting Bus. If they had asked folk at their workplaces, and people who actually drive cars, and the companies themselves, the outcome would have been markedly different. Enough taxes....It won't be worth going to work soon
Comment | 3 Oct 2008
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Could Workplace Parking Levy raise extra revenue?
As most local authorities provide a significant number of parking spaces for its own staff, how will the levy on these be managed?
Comment | 3 Oct 2008
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Could Workplace Parking Levy raise extra revenue?
This certainly isn't business friendly. This will kill our town centres. The developers of the many out of town office parks will have a field day. They simply need to close off the individual parking for each company, build a large car park with 'free parking' for anyone, and there is your work around. Town centres do not have this possibility.
Comment | 1 Oct 2008
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Could Workplace Parking Levy raise extra revenue?
Not quite sure how this reduces congestion - existing businesses with parking spaces (which they already pay business rates for?) cannot reduce their parking spaces to save money, so they are stuck with the extra bill, and to minimise future congestion the council can restrict planning permissions for parking spaces - much more effective. Or are the businesses only to be cha...
Comment | 1 Oct 2008
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The world in your hands?
...fire; and Sellafield Ltd is fined £75,000 after pleading guilty to breaches of health and safety law when two contractors inhaled radioactive dust. 16 LEGAL UPDATE With three payment bands set for compensation for injury to feelings, which one does a Tribunal choose? Plus belief in climate change could be covered by discrimination laws. ContinuinG PRofeSSionAL deVeLoPment 30 PRINCIPLES OF FIRE SAFETy Fire Safety Training Consultant, Clive Raybould, with the latest guidance on managing fire safety within a commercial premises. 40 CLINIC Workplace Law members ask the experts for advice on key man...
Magazine issue | 8 Jan 2010
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Same old: has health and safety really changed after the Young review?
...ring the past weeks. 09 COMMENT The Government will have to throw its weight behind the Green Investment Bank if it is to be a success, says Tim Smith. 34 DETERMINING DISCRIMINATION Advice from legal experts, James Willis and Susannah Gilmartin at Thomson Snell & Passmore, on how the Equality Act could influence claims for disability, sexual orientation, sex and race discrimination. 45 END NOTE Kelvin Reynolds of the British Parking Association on Government plans to outlaw wheelclamping on private land. 22 CULTURE ChANGE Steve Williams, Head of Equality and Diversity at ACAS, talks to Sara Bea...
Magazine issue | 1 Nov 2010
