Improvements to Aldeburgh parking signs to direct tourists

In a report detailing Aldeburgh Town Council's priorities in minutes for the council's June meeting, a series of actions are proposed in line with previous public consultations and questionnaires.

The measures include the provision of free disabled bays outside Aldeburgh Pharmacy in High Street and changes to charging in car parks to provide free or very cheap parking for up to two hours.

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Other plans included reserving spaces at the town's Fort Green car park for free or very cheap all day parking for staff at High Street businesses.

Parking signs could be introduced (file image) (Image: Newsquest)

However, councillor Alistair Lumpkin, head of the council's services working group, said the proposals contained in the report were only ideas and there was "nothing much to discuss" at the present time.

He said in any case, East Suffolk Council would need to be consulted about many of these ideas, as the district authority was responsible for much of the parking in the town.

But he said the council was looking to improve the signs for tourists and visitors to the town directing them to public car parks in Thorpe Road, at Fort Green and Oakley Square.

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These new signs would provide more information about how many parking spaces were available at these car parks, in comparison to the current, basic signs which just feature a blue letter P.

Mr Lumpkin said the signs might reduce the need for visitors to have to wait in High Street for spaces to become available.

"What we want to do is to get visitors and tourists to use the car parks more at either end of the town so we are going to be looking at the signage to make visitors more aware of the car parks," he added.

He hoped the new signs would be in place by the end of the financial year in March.