Huge wrote:
On 2008-12-31, Derek Geldard wrote:
On Wed, 31 Dec 2008 17:07:12 GMT, "The Medway Handyman"
wrote:

Medway Council seem set upon driving business away from the town centre, car
parking charges are horrific. Bearing in mind Chatham town centre is
between Bluewater & Hempstead Valley shopping centers - both of whom offer
free parking.

Parking charges are enforced 6 days a week until 10pm,
The message is :

"Come in a car ? **** off somewhere else we don't want you"

One of the few "messages" from local councils I'm happy to go along with.


However the implications of that - and its just the same in Cambridge,
with many cambridge residents feeling as you do - is that overall the
sort of shops that make a market town a market town, have all closed.