Introduction of on-street parking charges - West Malling High Street and Swan Street
West Malling High Street and Swan Street has 93 on-street shared-use parking bays that currently provide one hour free parking, as well as unlimited resident permit parking.
However these one hour parking bays are often used by all-day parking, reducing the opportunities for shoppers visiting the town centre.
It is proposed to introduce Pay and Display parking charges for on-street parking, allowing parking for up to four hours, to coincide with the parking charges in the nearby High Street car park. The charges are detailed here.
It is also proposed to extend the times of operation of the parking bay restrictions to operate every day, and to extend to 8pm, to reflect the changing on-street parking demand based on increasing Sunday and Bank Holiday trading.
Detailed maps of the proposed changes can be found here
There are also has proposals for changes to charges in the High Street car park and alterations to the loading bay outside Tesco.