RPZs Council planning to cut visitor permits

PEOPLE living within one of Bristol’s Residents’ Parking Zones will find it harder to get visitor permits for family and friends who come to stay - and they'll have to pay for the privilege too, the city council has announced.

- Tristan CORK

The council said it wants to make it harder for people to have visitors come and park within their RPZ so that they are ‘encouraged...to consider alternative, more sustainable travel options’.

Bristol City Council has begun a month-long formal consultation on a raft of changes to the way the RPZ schemes work, which are all designed to make it harder to park within an RPZ unless you have a permit.

The citywide changes will also see a tweak to the way people can pay to park within some parts of some RPZs. At the moment drivers can get a free ticket from a pay and display machine to park for half an hour within many RPZs, but the proposal is that this free option will only be available through the cashless RingGo parking app.