Edinburgh scraps plans for workplace parking charge

Kevin Lang, leader of the council’s Lib Dem group, also suggested commuters could “very easily avoid paying any charge at all simply by parking on a residential street and walking along a footway or across a road”.

Labour’s Katrina Faccenda added moving forward with the introduction of a parking levy would be “hitting working people with a big huge stick” and “not giving them any carrots”.

She said many residents living in new houses on the edge of the city tended to be lower-paid workers who commuted into the city centre.

Ms Faccenda added: “They are a fair walk to the bus stop or nearest train station.

“If they’re working shifts we know making use of public transport sometimes becomes impossible at the moment or could even involve two or three buses.”