Wellington City Council has given Peter Jackson’s Stone Street Studios exclusive rights to 50 publicly owned and funded car parking spaces for just $1 a year since 2010.
Commenting on this, Taxpayers’ Union Policy and Public Affairs Manager, James Ross, said:
“Wellington Council is tearing up car parks left-right-and-centre for the rest of us, with around 800 planned to be removed across the city. Unless you’re a Hollywood superstar of course, then the Council will roll out the red tarmac.
“Wellington’s favourite corporate welfare recipient has been given 50 parking spots since 2010, all for $14 total. That’s less than what the rest of us have to pay for parking in just one spot in the CBD for 3 hours.
“Nothing sums up Wellington City Council’s attitude to the hardworking mum-and-dad ratepayers who pay their wages more than subsidising billionaires to park whilst paying millions of dollars to make everyone else walk.”