{"id":6798,"date":"2012-12-05T11:03:52","date_gmt":"2012-12-05T11:03:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.freeinuk.co.uk\/blog\/?p=6798"},"modified":"2012-12-05T11:05:02","modified_gmt":"2012-12-05T11:05:02","slug":"free-parking-northumberland-brings-mixed-responses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.freeinuk.co.uk\/blog\/free-parking-northumberland-brings-mixed-responses","title":{"rendered":"Free parking in Northumberland brings in mixed responses"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.freeinuk.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/Northumberland-Free-Parking-in-Confusion.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-6799\" title=\"Northumberland Free Parking in Confusion\" src=\"http:\/\/www.freeinuk.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/Northumberland-Free-Parking-in-Confusion.jpg\" alt=\"Northumberland Free Parking in Confusion\" width=\"250\" height=\"160\" \/><\/a>Although one week free parking till Christmas was announced in Northumberland towns, reports say that it is likely to create a lot of confusion. A meeting will be formed by Peter Jackson, group leader to decide upon this.<\/p>\n<p>However, Conservative councillors have decided to request county council to remove parking fees for one week prior to Christmas in order to boost trade in areas such as Alnwick, Berwick, Hexham, Morpeth and Corbridge. Coun Andrew Tebbutt\u00a0has said that allowing <a title=\" Northumberland Free Parking Creates Chaos\" href=\"http:\/\/www.journallive.co.uk\/north-east-news\/todays-news\/2012\/12\/04\/free-christmas-parking-in-northumberland-towns-would-be-chaos-61634-32356358\/\" target=\"_blank\">free parking will create congestion and chaos<\/a> and would ultimately drive away customers rather than attracting more. The chairperson of Morpeth chamber of trade\u2019s car parking sub-committee has said that free parking would be useful during January and February when trading is likely to become dull.<\/p>\n<p>There are mixed responses from several people in the council. Yet it is expected that a solid conclusion will be drawn upon soon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Although one week free parking till Christmas was announced in Northumberland towns, reports say that it is likely to create a lot of confusion. A meeting will be formed by Peter Jackson, group leader to decide upon this. However, Conservative councillors have decided to request county council to remove parking fees for one week prior [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[122],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6798","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.freeinuk.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6798","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.freeinuk.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.freeinuk.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.freeinuk.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.freeinuk.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6798"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.freeinuk.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6798\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6801,"href":"http:\/\/www.freeinuk.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6798\/revisions\/6801"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.freeinuk.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6798"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.freeinuk.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6798"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.freeinuk.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6798"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}