Useful inner city parking facility
The Christchurch City council recently opened a new car park on the Sheraton Hotel site in Montreal Street. The car park is in the block between Worcester and Gloucester Streets. With 190 casual and 70 reserved parks available, the new facility has become a great asset for motorists visiting the inner city. The car park is within three minutes walk from the Square and is also close to the Botanic Gardens, museum, art gallery and Arts Centre.
Mr Geoff Stevenson, the council’s superintendent for the Parking division, says the council is interested in developing vacant sites for car parking.
“There can be a time span of up to two years between when an old
building is demolished and the start of reconstruction.
“During that time, a site may become a mud hole. The car park tidies the area up and in the meantime helps to solve the city’s parking problems,” he says. The new car park is on a site where the proposed Sheraton Hotel is to be built. The council has a 12-month lease which will become a three month renewable lease from next April. In the past, car parks had either meters or parking attendants. This meant that setting up the facility could be expensive.
The Sheraton car park is a coupon only park. Coupons are available from adjoining businesses such as the Chung Wah Restaurant, Robert Brown
Real Estate and the Canterbury Officers’ Club.
Parking coupons are also available from more than 150 other city and suburban outlets.
Owing to the reduced overheads, parking charges have been kept down to 40 cents an hour. A full day’s parking is just four dollars. This compares with one dollar per hour in a staffed parking area.
The new car park is ideal for visitors to Christchurch with campervans and caravans which cannot be taken into a parking building. It is also ideal for inner city workers who occasionally need to have their vehicles with them.
The council is looking at other vacant blocks which can be used for similar parking sites.
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Press, 15 August 1988, Page 23
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