Cowey Sale Parking Charges

D'Oyly Carte Green with car park entrance The Conservative administration at Elmbridge has voted in favour of consulting on its proposal to introduce a 60p per hour charge,  from 10:00 to 16:00 all week. Although Cowey Sale car park is not in Weybridge, if charging is introduced there it will doubtless affect the car park in D'Oyly Carte Green in Walton Lane.  Faced with charges at one end of Walton Lane, people looking for a walk along the Thames path will simply drive to Weybridge instead. Elmbridge already makes a profit of nearly £1,000,000 a year from parking charges and half of that profit comes from Weybridge car parks (the other eight towns in Elmbridge put together provide the other half).  Weirdly, Cowey Sale car park isn't even in Elmbridge - it is in Spelthorne. I do not think charging at Cowey Sale is justified.  If it was always full that would be another matter. Click on this link for the details 140124 NoticeofProposalsPublicCarParksFinal All objections, specifying the grounds on which they are made, and other representations relating to the proposals must be made before 1 February 2014, in writing and sent to Elmbridge Parking Services 1 High Street ESHER KT10 9SD.