Opposition growing to council's plan to 'privatise' town car park

MORE than 1,000 people have so far signed a petition calling on Cornwall Council not to "privatise" one of its most popular car parks.

- BY LEE TREWHELA

Kitto's Field in Porthleven is one of 19 council-owned car parks which could be offloaded to a private management company.

Jona Jones, a resident of the harbour town, is so aghast at the move that he started the Change.org petition to "keep our Porthleven free from big brother cameras".

Cornwall Council's strategic director for sustainable growth previously agreed that the car parks across the Duchy can be leased to Corserv Solutions Ltd, a company which is owned by the council. They are then likely to be run by a private car park enforcement company using automatic number plate recognition (ANPR) camera equipment.