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  Jack, don't forget this has been going on for nearly 20 years under several 'regimes', it's not just the current ones who are responsible.
  
  From the DTIZ Framework Travel Plan:
  
  2.21 The car park will operate a short stay pay and display shopper's car park with a 4 hour
  maximum stay. The charge for the car park will be in line with other short stay car parks within
  the town.
  
  
  Some more interesting detail from one of the over 200 pages of Travel Assessment Appendices - the last sentence in particular is ironic in the least at his time:
  
  Prior to the first use/occupation of the development hereby permitted, a Car Parking
  Management Agreement (CPMA) shall be submitted to and approved in writing by
  the Local Planning Authority. The CPMA shall include confirmation that no less than
  439 parking spaces shall be provided at the site for use by users of the
  development. The development shall be implemented and the car park managed in
  accordance with the CPMA.
  
  A review of the CPMA shall be completed 6 months from the date of first occupation
  of the development and submitted for the approval of the Local Planning Authority in
  consultation with the Highway Authorities and repeated at 12 months after first
  occupation. Additionally, if and when the occupancy of the car park exceeds 95%
  for three consecutive days or six days within a six month period, a review of the
  CPMA shall be carried out and a report submitted to demonstrate how the
  development will operate in transport terms with the increased demand in future.
  The Local Planning Authority shall be notified within 1 month that the threshold has
  been reached and a review report shall be submitted within 4 months. This review
  report shall include proposals for the implementation of additional measures to
  ensure that the operation of the car park does not cause vehicles to queue back to
  the mainline of the A20. Any additional mitigation measures proposed shall be
  submitted to and approved by the Local Planning Authority in consultation with the
  Highways Authorities and subsequently implemented on receipt of approval of the
  Local Planning Authority.
  
  Reason: To ensure that the demand for parking does not exceed the capacity of the
  car park and those vehicles do not queue back onto the A20 trunk road. Any
  queuing on the A20 would have implications on the safety and free flow of the traffic
  using the trunk road network.

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