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27 November 2006
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No parking charges for police
THE streets around Edinburgh's police headquarters are set to be exempt from new parking restrictions at an estimated cost of £250,000 a year to public funds.
It means police officers will be able to park for free outside their offices while residents in surrounding streets will have to pay to park outside their homes.
The council has dropped the roads around the Fettes HQ from its controversial extension of the city's controlled parking zone in order to accommodate officers working shifts.
But business leaders have accused the council of double standards after refusing to make similar allowances for other shift workers.
Pay-and-display and resident-only parking bays are to be installed in the area surrounding the police headquarters, apart from stretches of the two roads nearest the building, Fettes Avenue and Carrington Road.
Police chiefs raised concerns about the impact on police operations and their ability to attract and retain staff when the council first drew up its proposals last year.
The council said the move would still achieve their aim of stopping commuters from parking in residential areas because there are no homes on the two streets which are set to be dropped.
The new parking restrictions will be introduced in the rest of the Comely Bank area next July.
However, dropping the sections of the two streets means the council will lose around £250,000 in annual income from pay-and-display bays in the area.
Graham Russell, chairman of the Edinburgh branch of the Federation of Small Businesses, said: "This is ludicrous - complete double standards from the council.
"Why should shopkeepers and other workers who have to work shifts put up with the restrictions and not police workers?
"All we are asking for is a level playing field across the city."
His feelings were echoed by Councillor Tom Ponton, whose Dean ward covers part of the Comely Bank area that comes under the new restrictions.
"I am not happy about this at all. If there is a concern about parking for the police then they should cordon off a part of the street and keep it for them - this way will just create an even bigger free-for-all and make congestion worse.
"The police say they need it for their shift workers but there are plenty of other shift workers in Edinburgh that have deal with parking restrictions.
"This will also have an impact on those Comely Bank residents who have a permit but can't find a space and come over to Fettes for a space."
The police chiefs' pleas for an exemption were revealed by the Evening News last May after correspondence was released to the newspaper under the Freedom of Information Act.
Councillor Allan Jackson, the Tory transport spokesman for Edinburgh, said: "This is likely to create a two-tier parking system where there will be a mad rush for these free spaces in the morning.
"The CPZ scheme was designed to try and cut down on the commuter parking and leaving these bays free will undermine this."
Councillor Ricky Henderson, executive member for transport said: "The buffer zone will create free long-stay parking for shift-workers and hopefully encourage drivers to leave their cars here rather than in other residential areas out with the controlled parking zone."
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