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Council "sop" – claim

A call has gone out for a council to listen to a plea from readers of the South Wales Evening Post.

Swansea Council is determined to proceed with a controversial city centre voucher car parking scheme, according to the paper.

It fears a massive consultation exercise was nothing more than a “sop” and the scheme would go ahead whatever the response.

The paper reported that councillors and officers claimed the responses to its consultation exercise were mixed, and that a “sizeable” number of people had in favour of the idea.

But the paper wrote: “That does not tally with the response of our readers, who have sent in hundreds of names for a petition in a couple of days.”

Local businesses have also raised a 1,000-name petition.

The council said in a press release that many of the 3,000 people who visited the roadshow were “delighted by the benefits of the proposal”.

But Adrian Whitehorn, spokesman for Swansea Against Payment Parking, told the Post: “I think these claims are insulting people’s intelligence.”

He said he was at two public meetings and heard only negative views expressed – with all 124 people at one meeting voting against the scheme.

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