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  • Reduce absence, improve productivity
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• Re-thinking commuting
  • Commuting basics
  • What we could do differently
    • Encouraging cycling and walking for work
    • Commuting by rail
    • Encouraging work-related travel by bus and coach
    • Motorcycling for work
    • Re-thinking cars for work
      • Parking
      • Workplace parking levy
      • Car sharing
      • Car clubs
  • Reducing commuting through ICT
• Re-thinking business travel
• Measuring and monitoring carbon impacts
• Creating your ways2work plan
• Creating a healthy workplace

Workplace parking levy

The levy – the first of its kind in the UK – is due to be introduced in phases in Nottingham from 2012 at a charge of £253 per space per year. It will affect employers with more than 10 parking spaces, although disabled parking and hospital parking will be exempt from the scheme. The proposal is for the levy to be city wide within the City council boundary and all liable employers (those with more than 10 spaces) will have to obtain a licence.

Around 500 larger employers will be liable to pay the charge with more than 3,000 smaller employers not paying the levy. It is estimated that the levy will generate more than £90 million during its 20-year life span.

Depending on how the Workplace Parking Levy works for Nottingham, this may well be taken up by other cities in the UK. It is therefore something that businesses should bear in mind.

Bentley Motors
in 2009 the car share scheme alone saved an estimated 1,493,192 miles and 491.3 tonnes of CO₂

Heathrow
car share scheme saves an estimated 247,820 kg of CO₂ per month and since 2009 approximately 200 new members each month saved over £200,000 in cost saving

KPMG
saved 179 tonnes on CO₂, and 2.1 million travel miles since 2002 by running the car share scheme

University of Derby
in the last year business mileage has dropped by around 10,000 due to the car share scheme and made actual annual saving of £4,000