workplace parking levy

English

Noun

workplace parking levy (plural workplace parking levies)

1. (UK) A charge that can be made by local authorities on parking provided by employers for employees, for the purposes of reducing road congestion, improving air quality and encouraging use of public transport.
   • 2024 March 6, Steve Edwards discusses with Anthony Lambert, “The bedrock of urban renewal”, in RAIL, number 1004, page 35:

     Invariably, the principal object is to improve air quality. But those constraints beg the question: why has no city followed Nottingham's example of a workplace parking levy, which has generated about £10 million a year to finance the city's tram system?

Further reading

• Transport for London