Parking fee meeting for locals a 'total shambles'

ANGER OVER ONLINE CONSULTATION WHERE PEOPLE WERE UNABLE TO SPEAK

- NICK HORNER News Reporter

AN online meeting on plans to charge drivers to park in one of the city's most popular beauty spots has been slammed as a 'shambles!

The meeting on proposals by Birmingham City Council to charge for parking in Sutton Park was far from an open consultation according to locals.

It did not allow residents to speak directly to officers instead questions had to be typed, with some being answered and others 'ignored.

Sutton Coldfield town and city Conservative Cllr David Pears, who also chairs the Sutton Park Advisory Committee, described the meeting as the 'worst consultation meeting I have ever attended.

He said some residents were unable to join the meeting, some took 30 minutes to do so and other gave up trying.

But the meeting did reveal some new details on the plans to charge residents.