Stop press : Ryedale District Council drop car registration login...........

Don't know if it was the pressure from this site and the pressure from individuals, but the mean and unfriendly regime mentioned below has been dropped so you can now hand your unused time to someone else if you do not use all the time on your parking permit.  The traders and residents of Ryedale can only apologise for the councils penny  pinching antics of late, but please come and visit us as we are a much friendlier bunch that the Council.

Parking is the subject of great debate in Ryedale. Most of the traders feel that free parking for the first hour or three would help keep this wonderful area of Ryedale ahead of the game and would help us to compete against the FREE PARKING of the 'Out of town shopping parks'. Charging visitors or shoppers to 'spend their money' is not a cleaver thing to do. The council then dreamed up a way to stop the visitors from giving their unused and, paid for time to some one else by requiring the car's registration to be entered onto the ticket. This is to say the least, mean or just plain stupid. What we need is plenty of free parking but what we have is a constant but steady loss of spaces for all sorts of idiotic reasons and more and more stupid and unfriendly charges to make sure the 'Out of town shopping parks' get stronger and stronger.

David Wakeley. December 1998

If you have any experience of this problem, please E-Mail me with the details at David@ryedale.co.uk

Have a look at a vision of what Malton and Ryedale should be doing about it, by:

Roddy Bushell, estate manager, Fitzwilliam (Malton) Estates

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6th March 2007

Hi I have just read your parking situation and to be very honest with you when we last visited on holiday I was horrified to realise that as a disabled person, each and every car park needed me to pay. Throughout Yorkshire this seemed to be the case and I went back absolutely loathing the small minded attitude of the councils. I have just been searching for car parking in Malton so I can park and use a bus to Scarborough and noticed the comments and I would love the council to know that visitors to the area find it unacceptable to pay these high parking charges and with no care for the disabled either so, on behalf of people like myself, would you please know you are not alone. Councils so often penny pinch to bring in extra income however there is true beauty in Yorkshire and if only councils would make parking easier and user friendly I do believe more people would stop awhile and return. Thank you for listening to my views Regards and good luck with any campaigns to make these silly people see sense 

Chrissie

15th Feb 2000

I have just moved into the area from Wetherby where I have lived for the last 18 years. I drove into Malton on Saturday to have a look round the local "metropolis". 

I was absolutely horrified at the parking restrictions. I used to think Wetherby was bad, but at least there are places right in the town center where you can park.

I thought that the council's system of requiring you to put the 3 digits of your car registration on the parking ticket smacks of big brother gone mad! How can it possibly reduce the council's income if I give my ticket to someone coming into the car park to use my unexpired time. I have several times been the recipient and the giver of such a favour at the market car parks in Leeds. It harms no-one and engenders a spirit of good neighborliness amongst the citizens. Malton - get with it and stop being so money grabbing.

I have often remarked on the difference between the attitudes towards parking in France and Britain. In France you can park almost anywhere without penalty - indeed in some seaside!! resorts, the parking places along the seafront are specifically reserved for non - French cars. Compare that to any British seaside resort!
Nuff said
best regards
Roy Longmuir

1st Jan 1999

I agree with your comments on Parking - ALL main car parks should be free
to encourage people into out town centres.
It seems to be a fact of life that even family nominal charges put people
off, we all scour the town for somewhere free.
We must do all we can to defend our towns from the Out of Town shopping
centres which creep ever closer (ie Monks Cross)
Best regards and keep up the good work!

Andrew Kilby