Issue - meetings

Report of Assistant Director Property

Purpose of report

To respond to the motion raised at Full Council in December 2025 requesting Executive to consider providing free car parking each year in Council owned and managed car parks on Remembrance Sunday.

Recommendations

The Executive resolves:

1.1         To provide free car parking each year in Council owned and managed car parks, except those at Castle Quay, on Remembrance Sunday. 

Resolved

(1)          That free car parking be provided each year in Council owned and managed car parks, except those at Castle Quay, on Remembrance Sunday.

The Assistant Director Property submitted a report to respond to the motion raised at Full Council in December 2025 requesting Executive to consider providing free car parking each year in Council owned and managed car parks on Remembrance Sunday.

Councillor Ford, who had proposed the motion at Council, thanked Executive for the positive response agreeing to implement the motion.

In considering the report, Executive members thanked Councillor Ford for bringing the motion forward. The provision of free parking in Council owned and managed car parks on Remembrance Sunday, was, as the motion set out, a practical and meaningful gesture of support for the Armed Forces community.

Resolved

(1)          That free car parking be provided each year in Council owned and managed car parks, except those at Castle Quay, on Remembrance Sunday.

Reasons

Provision of free car parking in council owned car parks (excluding Castle Quay) supports Remembrance Sunday is a national day of remembrance to honour the service and sacrifice of the Armed Forces, veterans, and their families.

Alternative options

Option 1: Not supporting the motion could infer that the Council is not supportive of the wider purpose and aims of Remembrance Sunday.