Interesting Pay and Display Shuttle notice

When the council makes alterations to the payment structure of any of its run car-parks it needs to put a notice in the paper. One such notice appeared in this weeks paper dated 29/07/10 on page 64 and it makes curious reading.

Firstly it deals with Land at 8 and 8a Bridge Street Stourport, wherever this is. Google Maps shows it as the Factory Shop and indeed there is space next to it - but that's private land. In fact there's only one 'public' area of parking - the bays in front of the Flamingo, which are free.

The next surprise is the introduction of car-parking charges to previously free areas including the Vale Road car-park. This is a surprise as it's currently the only free car-park in Stourport and sources inform me that it's remained that way due to a covenant between the council and the landowner/giver. In fact the same sources inform me that the council tried to make this a PnD car-park several years ago, putting up notices and so forth only to be blocked by this covenant.

So either I'm wrong, and the fact it's remained free for so long weighs against that; the covenant has expired; the council don't remember it exists; or the council hope no-one else remembers it exists.

Even more curiously the notice intends to revoke the use of Resident Season Tickets here... except it's free. [Possibly it's subject to the same 23 out of 24 hour usage that's being expired in Bewdley and ticket holders were exempt from this] So is there some other car-park on Vale Road I'm unaware of? The land is identified on plans and can be seen during short working areas at Stourport and Kidderminster. Online? Well I'll have a look, but won't hold my breath. So anyone with some time fancy a look for me? Wait!

OMG the notice is online along with the reasons for doing it. The Bridge Street car-park

The creation of new surface car parks at Bridge Street

so they're not even referring to an existing car-park yet and

The introduction of charges at The Avenue, Blakedown and Vale Road, Stourport-on-Severn surface car parks to ensure consistency and equity across the district in charging for the use of spaces on public pay and display car parks.

except Vale Road isn't a PnD car-park and never has been. So am I referring to the right areas? I don't know because they haven't provided the maps to which the notice refers. Ya know what I'll accept this as a mistake and give them a call, wait the number is listed as "(emergencies only)"; um?

So I used the dead-tree phone book and called the number there, made sure that they knew I applauded the fact that the notice was even posted so I wouldn't have to try and leave work to see it all, but that it needed a little extra information namely the location map to which they were referring to. With any luck that might get posted too I'll keep my eyes open.

[Update 19/8 - Just to prove if you don't say anything you won't get - the  location maps have been added to the original page linked above so it's confirmed that they were indeed talking about the Vale Road car-park we know and the current Lloyds garage site]