Birmingham car park nets £1 million for council

Sep 18 2011 by Jonny Greatrex, Sunday Mercury

A PUBLIC car park has netted a Midland council more than £1.5 million in a year.

Birmingham’s Livery Street multi-storey serves Snow Hill train station and the city’s business district.

And in the last financial year it made the city council a whopping £1,578,017.

Across Birmingham, car parking brought in an astonishing £11.5 million between April 2010 and March this year.

The second highest earning car park was the Town Hall’s on Brunel Street, which brought in £935,325.

The Brindley Drive site, close to the International Convention Centre, was third with £737,196.

The figures were obtained using the Freedom of Information Act and cover every car park and metered on-street zone owned by the council.

But despite the huge figures, revenues are actually falling.

In 2008-09 the car parks brought in £13 million, while the following year they earned £12.3 million. Council bosses are hoping to recoup some of the losses by charging for Sunday parking, which has been free for the past last 13 years.