Parking fines still being issued at Dimensions Leisure Centre as people fail to realise they need to get a ticket
People are still being fined by Stoke-On-Trent City Council as motorists either don't realise about Dimensions Leisure Centre and Splash Pool parking charges or are just chancing it.
Some may presume that although it's a council car park, parking enforcement will be minimal. This isn't the case.
The parking measures were put in place after the council said because there was a lot of unfair usage of the car parks depriving users of parking spaces especially on match days. They also indicated that they wanted to raise even more money from people using the centres, so wanted to charge a high rate fee for simple usage.
However where as other car parks in the area rarely see a parking attendant, Dimensions has a full time parking attendant, which has ben staffed by a private firm since the premature start of the scheme.
On Sunday morning I witnessed a official Stoke-on-Trent City Council's traffic warden sniffing and handing out a fine to one unlucky dimensions customer.
Parties
On Twitter today it was mentioned that a parent attending a birthday party at Dimensions yesterday and was gutted to find on leaving the party that their car had received a fine. Not a great business case for the lucrative party business. Other popular destinations such as Funsters, Whacky Warehouses, Community Hall's & other Leisure Centres on the borders of Stoke-on-Trent don't charge parents a fee to bring their children to parties. You'd also think where water is concerned, parent's would be encouraged to stick around, not scoot off as quick as can be, without the need to pay the £1 surcharge.
One out spoken critic of the car park Charging is PR & 6Towns DJ Nigel Howle. Nigel speaking on Twitter said on twitter.
“ Having to pay to park at out of town leisure centre is wrong!”
It's poor policy Matt and saying we need to raise revenue is no justification #leisurecentreparkingcharges”
Effect on people using the pool
Stoke-on-Trent are leaving themselves open to dropped numbers in people taking part in physical activity, holding parties at their centres and opting not using their facilites when hunting for football pitches, gyms, swimming lessons.
As a parent whose child has swimming lessons at the pool, & judging by the number of people attending Dimensions on Sundays the parking does seem to have caused a dramatic drop in swimmers. In the previous year Sundays saw the pool packed to the raffters, even in the cold winter months.
You couldn't get a larger changing cubical, there would be no towel hooks, long queues on the dragon slide. Sadly this is no longer the case.
Has parking charges stopped you from attending Dimensions or Parking Charges?
Have you had a bad experience parking at a Stoke-on-Trent Leisure Centre?
Comments
I've stopped going to
I've stopped going to dimensions now as I was put off by our money grabbing council and take our children for a proper swim at biddulph. Anyone being charged at the car park will have a case to challenge their tickets if as one of the picture shows the parking machine is covered.
According to Stoke-on-Trent
According to Stoke-on-Trent City Council's website.......
i used to go to the gym at
i used to go to the gym at Dimensions, just before and slightly after the pay to park was introduced, although gym members were given a parking pass to put into their car window for display - for free parking for gym members while at the gym, the cost of the membership went up quiet abit,
this was one of the reasons that we cancelled our gym membership at Dimenions,
paying to park should not have happened at the pool.but it seems that the cities council are very quick to use pay to park as the main solution to
everything.
And you lost the use of
And you lost the use of Tunstall Pool
What better way to get it
What better way to get it closed, by charging people away from it.
Anyone who believes that this was for use on the car park is living in cuckoo land.
The City council mean to close Dimensions by hook or by crook.
If they put the thousands they promised Chaudry into Tunstall Pool,and Dimensions we would have first class pools.
Oh well Chaudry and his Labour cronies in the counciil will have to come up with another plan to make him richer.
Either that, or they really
Either that, or they really are that incompetent when it comes to running a business, and judging by the little insights into Tunstall Pool is the way it appears.
So, a council that can't run a business wants to start playing with £5million of our finances in investments. We might as well spend it on fireworks.
W/M when you promise a local
W/M when you promise a local business man £100,000 annually and then go ahead and close two public swimming swimming baths that in my shoes is nine bob note style.
That money (and they obviously had it to offer it to him) could have gone into local services.
Then hide the facts away?
This was public money and surely its illegal to missuse public moneyin this way.
Yet they have been "let off" again by the police.
Questions will be asked over this for a long time, and has I have stated before Tunstall and Shelton tax-payers have been duped by this bunch of wasters.
The difference between
The difference between Tunstall Pool and Waterworld are vast Terry.
Firstly you could swim and get fit in Tunstall Pool. You could learn to swim there in pools deeper than the average 4 year old can stand in, and lastly Tunstall Pool was far cheaper than a session to Waterworld.
I'll never understand the shutting of Tunstall Pool when they did as they never tried to make it work. It was just there. No advertising (doesn't have to cost when you have your own publication, you own the sign posts, leaflets in school bags etc) The figures floated around about the costs it would need to fix it were over-over-inflated.
I think it's all part of the 1 city, screw the towns approach. If it's not in Hanley it's not wort s**t.
W/M your last sentance says
W/M your last sentance says it all.
The differance between Waterworld and Dimensions is lining a businessmans pocket and stuffing the public.
It makes me very curious as to the motives of Pervez, Meredith, and officers of the council as to why they had to go to so much trouble to keep the details of meetings with Chaudry so secret.
Never have trusted anyone that is frightened of the truth.
Its there again isnt it the
Its there again isnt it the "Lets all love Hanley syndrome", I would love to see the other towns that make up Stoke on Trent sue the council for gross negligence and abandonment.
But then the people behind
But then the people behind the 1 city no town wil say you're being backwards. I've had it on here when I covered the Mike Wolf seminar when he was spouting it out.
See Mike Wolf - Stoke on Trent One City
You can still vote on the issue here Vote on: Is Stoke-on-Trent a City Centre or collection of 6 towns
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