Decision details

Upgrade the Council’s parking Pay and Display machines to accept the new £1 and £2 coins being released by the Royal Mint.

The Cabinet Member agrees to the commencement of the procurement project to update the Pay and Display machines by granting full approval of the £67k capital budget in financial year 2016/17.

The proposal is to address an operational issue with the acceptance of the new £1 coin and protect the data of customers.

Do nothing – considered as low numbers of coins will be in circulation at start. This was rejected as access to payment methods is critical to ensure that levels of transactions are retained to protect income. Without the upgrade of credit card units further access channels will be removed.

Upgrade coin validator but do not upgrade credit card unit – considered as cost of units is significant (but overall cost is not as it is only 19 machines). However this may reduce the numbers of users within the car park as credit card options remain popular especially amongst those who do not use mobile phone solutions.

Upgrade credit card unit but don’t upgrade coin validator – rejected as numbers of new shape coins will likely increase quickly due to volumes of coins in circulation as this denomination.