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Springfield Way retail park welcomes shoppers with ample free parking

Anlaby is a busy and thriving community; there is an excellent variety of shops: the new delicatessen, the butcher, the baker, the green grocer, the convenience store, the optician and so on.  Business in the village is brisk – dare I say booming, particularly on Saturdays. The church site cleanup is over, the clouds have dispersed and the horizon looks bright.

Not so fast. Rumours of car park charges are stirring a storm that is blowing optimism from the high street into rocky waters.

The charges probably won’t be much to begin with, but you know how it is. They’ll start low – so that no one feels their effect to begin with – and stealthily creep upwards to create a hansom income for the local council. At least that’s the theory.

In practice, shoppers have an alternative and wallets do the voting. The Springfield Way Retail Park will surely greet such news with open arms and beckon shoppers to their abundant free parking.

Charging for parking in Anlaby is a false economy to the high street and we should resist such a measure.