Pricing & demandDerbyshire Dales car parks
The Derbyshire Dales tariff page lists £1.50 for 1 hour, £2.50 for 2, £3.80 for 3 and £5.00 for 4, with £6.00 for all day and £1.00 overnight (14 hours). The all-day ticket costs only £1.00 or 20% more than 4 hours by our arithmetic. The page says an all-day ticket works in other long-stay Dales car parks, doesn’t list Ashbourne separately and gives no date.
Why might a council make the all-day price only £1 above the 4-hour price, and what would you need to know to judge whether it works? Practise this in AO2 Application.
Interpreting numbersDerbyshire County Council tax on the Dales page
The Dales financial-information page gives the county’s Band D at £1,477.98 for 2023/24 and £1,551.73 for 2024/25, a rise of £73.75 or 4.99%. The adult social care element rose from £166.97 to £196.53, 17.7% by our arithmetic, and is 12.7% of the 2024/25 bill. The page’s 2.99% and 2.00% are shares of the previous total bill. These are older figures.
Why can one part of a bill rise 17.7% while the whole rises 4.99%, and what would you want to check? Step by step in AO3 Analysis.
Strategy & stakeholdersAshbourne Thursday market
The Dales market page says Ashbourne’s market runs every Thursday on Shrovetide Walk between the library and Yorkshire Trading. It publishes no stall charges and asks traders to email. It gives no number of stalls or footfall.
Should a council publish stall charges or negotiate each one, and who gains or loses? A real judgement for AO4 Evaluation.
Ashbourne’s economy in the classroom
Wikipedia’s list of settlements in Derbyshire by population gives 8,111 for Ashbourne at the 2011 census, which counts the built-up area rather than the local authority and may be out of date. Car park tariffs, council tax lines and a weekly market give students real contexts for pricing, interpreting numbers and stakeholders. We tie these themes to topics on the specification.
Sources: Wikipedia, list of settlements in Derbyshire by population; Derbyshire Dales District Council, car park tariffs, financial information and markets pages. The 20%, 17.7% and 12.7% figures are our arithmetic. The tariff page is undated and doesn’t list Ashbourne separately, and the council tax figures are for 2023/24 and 2024/25.
