I was driving through my nearest large town and decided I would swing in for a hour to check if some vouchers was still valid after endless shop closures.
When I parked up the carpark has gone from hourly starting at £1.60 to minimum of three hours at £3.
I'm sure I could go to another car park and presumably it might be a cheaper rate. But with so many shops shut recently I dont see the logic in this.
I was going to mooch around a few shops but I didnt need three hours so drove a mile from high street to check my vouchers on the free trading estate.
I dont really like the other car parks as the top is on a killer hill. One is central and the spaces are tiny and the other is at the top of the hill. The shopping centre is at the bottom.
So unless I really need to go to a few shops I do think it would put me off going into town. Poor high street. Going there feels more like hard work as time goes on.