(Image: Joe Griffin/LDRS)Using public money to pay for free parking in Peterborough and parts of Huntingdonshire is “unfair” on taxpayers who do not live in those areas, it has been argued. Concern has been shared that a two year free parking trial will be an “extremely poor use of public money”. ‌He said offering free parking was an “economic regeneration measure” to help businesses in those areas. He stressed that the free parking proposals were an “economic regeneration measure” for areas he said needed a “shot in the arm”. ‌Councillor Shabina Qayyum (Labour), leader of Peterborough City Council, highlighted that Peterborough was a city that “suffers significant deprivation levels”.