Businesses in Paisley fear a move to scrap three hours free parking could damage the high street.
For almost five years, visitors to Paisley have been able to get three hours free parking in six of the town's car parks.
Retailers say the change could have a damaging impact across the town centre, with one charity shop manager saying his volunteers are considering cutting their hours. "I could maybe see an argument for it if there was a real problem with parking round here - but there just isn’t." Despite Mr Gardiner's opposition to the parking charges, he said: "I do think the council have done a lot of good things in comparison to Glasgow, it’s not a complete negative for me."Under the new parking rules introduced earlier this month, the Free for Three scheme was scrapped in favour of one hour free in all council-owned car parks and on-street parking bays.
"The town centre is already on its knees, everybody's trying really really hard to bring the town centre back to life and hold on to what we’ve got," he said.“There has to be a happy medium somewhere, there has to be some way to meet in the middle."Cindy McKendrick, the general manager of Cafe Fairfull on Paisley's High Street, called for the reintroduction of Free for Three.
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