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Bootle and Southport drivers face higher parking charges
An increase in parking charges is set to be applied in Southport and Bootle in a move claimed to balance council budget books for next year, it has been claimed.
According to the Liverpool Daily Post, approximately £65,000 is required by officials in the area in order to meet budgetary limits.
The publication comments that keeping a car at Bootle Leisure Centre will now cost £3.20 rather than a £1, which may seriously affect. the amount that people spend on their motoring in the future, especially on top of high road tax bills and car and bike insurance policies.
But this is the simplest and most effective way of raising funds in the area, remarks local councillor Ian Brodie Browne.
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The official said: "For me, the £65,000 package raised the right amount of money relatively painlessly."
Meanwhile, figures from the Daily Post in North Wales show the amount of money that people in Denbighshire are paying for parking charges.
The news source comments that the 17,157 offences in 2006 and 2007 cost drivers in the area some £474,420.
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