Council's plan 'too optimistic'

A TOP trader has warned that the borough council is being 'over-optimistic' by believing that encouraging businesses to share their car parks with the public will ease the town's parking problems.

The Royal Borough plans to persuade businesses across the town to allow visitors and residents to use their private car parks at evenings and weekends, when the staff that usually use them are not at work. But David Jessey, the proprietor at John Goodwin Menswear in Peascod Street cast a dampener on the idea at Tuesday's meeting of Windsor District Chamber of Commerce.

He said: "I think they are being over optimistic to think that businesses giving up parking spaces are going to make much difference. "People go to car parks they are used to, ones that are always open. I doubt it will be easy to signpost these newly available car parks clearly enough to make it obvious when they can be used and when they cannot."