Aberavon seafront parking charge

[jack123]

I remember people complaining about getting stuck in the car park so their answer was to build an extra entrance

I forget what the problem was now, maybe 3 or 4 year ago. But it was at a standstill, highly reported and they still fined them all, and rejected on appeal, Which IMO is absolutely ridiculous, and shame on Swansea Council for not stepping in on that, they may be a private company down there, but no way can you rip people off like that.

 

[Smurph]

You can park in Swansea city centre multi-story car parks for £5 all day. Council tried to increase those charges last year and people went nuts, leading to a quick reversal.

Ironically, a large proportion of those spaces are taken by people working all day in the city centre, so the argument that cheaper parking means more footfall and spend in the city centre doesn't hold water. Plus it means the car parks actually run at a loss at those prices and cost us all money from our council tax to maintain those low prices.

Whatever the council do, they can't win. Which feels like a lovely allegory for modern life to me.

If it wasn't for workers the city centre would be dead.

 

[Smurph]

I forget what the problem was now, maybe 3 or 4 year ago. But it was at a standstill, highly reported and they still fined them all, and rejected on appeal, Which IMO is absolutely ridiculous, and shame on Swansea Council for not stepping in on that, they may be a private company down there, but no way can you rip people off like that.

Probably meant someone in the council would actually need to do some work apart from looking for spots to build student accommodation on.

 

[Jack2jack]

I remember people complaining about getting stuck in the car park so their answer was to build an extra entrance

Aye, in only, brilliant.

 

[jack123]

You can park in Swansea city centre multi-story car parks for £5 all day. Council tried to increase those charges last year and people went nuts, leading to a quick reversal.

Ironically, a large proportion of those spaces are taken by people working all day in the city centre, so the argument that cheaper parking means more footfall and spend in the city centre doesn't hold water. Plus it means the car parks actually run at a loss at those prices and cost us all money from our council tax to maintain those low prices.

Whatever the council do, they can't win. Which feels like a lovely allegory for modern life to me.

Take a look at how many unnecessary single yellow lines the council have put up all over the shop in town, to stop people working in the centre, parking for free! Lower strand is a prime example, single yellow, leading all the way to their little dirt patch of a car park,

 

[Smurph]

Aye, in only, brilliant.

Can just imagine them patting each other on the back.

 

[Pacemaker]

I am currently in a dispute with Openreach over a Wayleave to allow them access to a manhole on my drive. They agreed everything sent me a contract to pay for access. They then sent me a cheque for an entirely different amount with no explanation.

I chased them up and they responded that it wasn’t my land and therfore not entitled to the payment.They had sent out a survey team and that was that.

This was despite us having both signed a contract to that effect.

I had previously sent them copies of the land registry documents showing the boundaries, photographs of the manhole cover within my boundary, photographs of the manhole cover open with a Openreach engineer using it with my drive blocked by barriers, engineers and cables.

It is not yet resolved and they have made it very difficult to correspond as they have no telephone numbers you can ring and only contact through email.

I went down the complaint route eventually as they turned into the computer said no…however an engineer turned up to access it and i pulled out the paperwork and sent him on his way asking his boss to email the lawyer i was dealing with.

Suddenly everyone wants to talk to me now.

 

[JackSomething]

If it wasn't for workers the city centre would be dead.

No arguments there and it will only be more so going forward, with the building of 71-72 Kingsway, the council moving into the old BHS, etc. With city centre retail dying, it's probably the city centre's only hope of surviving.

My point was that people last year screamed about the parking charges going up saying that it would stop people shopping in the city centre, yet the majority taking advantage of the low parking charges aren't there to shop. It's a tad ironic.

 

[JackSomething]

I am currently in a dispute with Openreach over a Wayleave to allow them access to a manhole on my drive. They agreed everything sent me a contract to pay for access. They then sent me a cheque for an entirely different amount with no explanation.

I chased them up and they responded that it wasn’t my land and therfore not entitled to the payment.They had sent out a survey team and that was that.

This was despite us having both signed a contract to that effect.

I had previously sent them copies of the land registry documents showing the boundaries, photographs of the manhole cover within my boundary, photographs of the manhole cover open with a Openreach engineer using it with my drive blocked by barriers, engineers and cables.

It is not yet resolved and they have made it very difficult to correspond as they have no telephone numbers you can ring and only contact through email.

I went down the complaint route eventually as they turned into the computer said no…however an engineer turned up to access it and i pulled out the paperwork and sent him on his way asking his boss to email the lawyer i was dealing with.

Suddenly everyone wants to talk to me now.

I can't talk about Openreach (and by extension BT) without wanting to hit something. One of my team had to deal with them about a business line as being a building manager is a part of their role and the subsequent months of phone calls and emails has just been farcical. We're talking monthly bills in the thousands of pounds and yet nobody can seemingly do anything to resolve issues, not helped by only being able to speak to people in the Indian region of course.

The fact that Adam Crozier (Chief Exec of Royal Mail during most of the Horizon shenanigans) is the Chairman of BT Group is just perfect.