Car parking charges are set to be introduced across council-owned car parks in Filton from spring next year.
Abbey Wood station and Church View car parks will initially be subject to parking charges; both will have long stay tariffs in place.
Charges will apply between 8am and 6pm, Monday to Saturday, with parking remaining free on Sundays and bank holidays, excluding park and ride and train station car parks.
For up to four hours, drivers will be charged £3 and blue badge holders will be free.
Four to 8 hours will be charged at £6 with a £3 fee for blue badge holders.
And all day parking will cost £9; £6 for blue badge holders.
The proposals are currently being shared and discussed with key local stakeholders, including Town and Parish Councils and Chambers of Commerce, in the areas where car park charging would be introduced.
In the long stay parking spaces, season tickets will be introduced so that local traders, businesses and workers can pay for parking in advance.
In short stay car parks across South Gloucestershire, at least ten per cent of spaces where charging will be introduced will remain free for 30-minute.
Short-stay parking will be charged at 70p for the first hour.
A validation system is proposed for some car parks, such as those that have primarily served health facilities, so that people visiting a GP are not charged.
Payments for parking will be cashless and can be made using the pay and stay machines on site, using a debit or credit card, or by using the MiPermit app, or by calling or texting MiPermit for non-smartphone users.
It is anticipated that the new scheme will generate an annual income of more than £800,000.
The council says that introducing parking charges will help protect services that residents value.
Not all council-owned car parks will have charging introduced, as some of the very smallest facilities would be unlikely to ever break even, the council says. It adds that it will monitor any displacement parking on roads surrounding the car parks, and will work with residents, should issues occur.
South Gloucestershire Council Cabinet Member for Communities and Local Place, Cllr Sean Rhodes, said: “We believe this scheme responds positively to the questions people raised about how we will put it into practice.
“We know that many residents did not want to have to pay car park charges locally. However, the financial situation faced by the council, and the assumptions built into the previous budget by the previous administration, mean that we have had to take this
decision.”
For more information visit www.southglos.gov.uk/parking-charges-faqs