Jersey Airport – public car park charges
Introduction
To increase the charge to the general public for use of the car parks at Jersey Airport, effective from 1 September 2011, for a period of three years.
Discussion
There are two public car parks at Jersey Airport; the short stay car park in front of the Arrivals Terminal, for which a charge of 60p per half hour, and the main car park in front of the Departures Terminal for which a charge of 60p per hour. There is no free parking at the airport, except for a 10 minutes ‘pit stop’ zone. Designated disabled parking bays are available within the two car parks.
The airport accrues a significant income from its public car parks, the total receipt for 2010 was £846,122 (£73,528 of which came from the arrivals car park and £772,594 came from the main car park).
The airport has not increased its charges since May 2009 and the cost of maintaining and administering the car parks has increased without any commensurate increase in charges, including an increase in GST.
Over the same period, the Transport & Technical Services Department has ministerial approvals increasing the unit charge of their car park pay cards from 58p to 69p, effectively an 18.9% increase to cover the on-going maintenance of their car parks, the increase in GST and to provide an additional increase return to General Revenues. The inflation percentage increase over the same period was 8.4%, plus the increase in GST of 2%, means an over all increase of 10.4%.
The airport’s automated car park pay machines do not accept copper coins, so it is proposed the increase is 70p as units can only be changed in 10p increments.
Recommendation
Accordingly, given this restraint – which would be very costly to accommodate, combined with other overhead costs, the recommended increased charge is 0.70p per unit.
The revised charges from the 1 September 2011 would be as follows:
1. Short stay car park – from 60p per half hour to 70p per half hour
2. Main car park – from 60p per hour to 70p per hour.
BGMM
Finance and Commercial Manager
July 2011
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