SOME charges in Ribble Valley car parks will rise by 10 per cent or more next year if proposals to raise income from fees are approved by councillors tomorrow.

Motorists stopping for between one and two hours at four sites in Clitheroe and one in Longridge will be hit hardest by the review.

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The borough’s community services committee has been asked to agree a range of fee increases for council services to boost income from charges overall by two per cent from £749,310 to £764,296.

Borough resources director Jane Pearson said charges for staying up to two hours on council short-stay sites have been unchanged since 2008.

She said from April 1, 2015, the borough should peg the one hour fee at the current 50p but recommends ‘a modest increase’ on other charges.

Under proposals, charges for between one and two hours on Clitheroe’s Railway View, Lowergate and Market car parks would rise by 10 per cent from £1 to £1.10. On the three sites parking for two to three hours would rise from £2.30 to £2.20 (4.35 per cent) and up to 10 hours by 2.63 per cent, from £7.60 to £7.80.

On Edisford car park, the cost for staying up to 30 minutes and one hour will remain 10 pence and 50 pence respectively.

The charge for between one and two hours will rise by 11.11 per cent from 90 pence to £1 and up to three hours by 5.56 per cent from £1.80 to £1.90.

Five hours rises by four per cent from £2.50 to £2.60 and over five hours by 3.03 per cent from £3.30 to £3.40.

At the Barclay Road, in Longridge short-stay car park, the one to two hour charge would rise by 12.5 per cent from 80 pence to 90 pence. The two to three hour charge would rise by 5.88 per cent from £1.70 to £1.80 and the up to 10 hours cost would go up by 1.41 per cent from £7.10 to £7.20.

Charges for Clitheroe’s six long-stay car parks for up to four hours have been frozen at a maximum of £1.10 with a 4.76 per cent increase of 10 pence to £2.20 for four to ten.

Long-stay car parks in Longridge, Sabden, Chipping and Dunsop Bridge will have under four hour charges frozen, but four to eight hour fees will rise by 10 pence to £1.90.

Clitheroe town centre councillor and businessman Kevin Horkin said: “As car park charges have been frozen since 2008, these increases are reasonable.”