Medway Tories have broken their election promise 6 weeks after being elected
Medway Tories have broken their election promise 6 weeks after being elected

Medway Park, the council operated leisure centre in Gillingham, has announced that it will no longer be reimbursing users for the cost of parking at the facility from August 2019. 

Cllr Andy Stamp, Councillor for Gillingham North and Medway Labour Spokesperson for Regeneration and Culture said, ‘Medway Conservatives pledged to freeze car parking charges for the next four years, but six weeks after being elected on this manifesto they have already broken their promise.

‘The decision by the Conservative-run council to scrap free parking for Medway Park users is short-sighted and will hit the poorest hardest, disincentivising those who cannot afford both the cost of using the facilities and the cost of parking.

‘The council ought to be doing everything they can to encourage residents to take up more exercise; healthier citizens save the government, and therefore taxpayers, money and takes pressure off the underfunded NHS. It is also a false economy: at a time when the Council is facing stiff competition from private, low-cost gyms, this is a tactical blunder which is likely to result in a loss of income for the Council.

‘If the Conservatives can so easily break their promise to freeze parking, residents are right to be concerned that Medway Tories will fail to honour other election promises over the next four years.’ 

If the Conservatives can so easily break their promise to freeze parking, residents are right to be concerned that Medway Tories will fail to honour other election promises over the next four years. Cllr Andy Stamp, Councillor for Gillingham North and Medway Labour Spokesperson for Regeneration and Culture
Cllr Andy Stamp, Councillor for Gillingham North and Medway Labour Spokesperson for Regeneration and Culture
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