Last year, Councillor Paula Keaveney proposed a motion to a committee meeting. She wanted to raise the problems of lack of non charging ATMs and to see what the Council would do to help our campaign.
She's now had a response to the motion. The full response will be published on the Council website with the minutes of the Regeneration and Transport Select Committee. When its published it'll be here.http://councillors.liverpool.gov.uk/ieListMeetings.aspx?CId=1207&Year=2011
However in summary what the Council has agreed to do includes:
* planning officers to explore how we can use the planning process to increase the number of free (ie non charging) ATMs in the City - this sounds rather procedural but has the potential to make quite a difference over time
* ask Liverpool Vision to see how they can get local businesses to install debit card services and offer cash back (a sort of alternative to an ATM although clearly only useful when the shop is open)
* help with lobbying at various levels
The Council however wasn;t prepared to go with one of Paula's suggestions which is to carry out a mapping exercise to see exactly where the free and non charging ATMs are.
The objection to doing this was to do with cost but also the complexity of this operation. Paula has said she may want to talk about this as there may be an IT based way of doing this involving communities and individuals inputting information themselves (a bit like the Fix My Street system)
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