Local Blog: Is Brackell's Parking down because of the recession‏?

It is reported on the Get Bracknell website that Parking is down by 6% in line with the recession.

This could be put down to a recession as the chief executive at the council stated in the article. However looking at the Berkshire Observatory web site I noticed that it was only Bracknell that replied. I think figures for the local area would of really gave some more enlighten statistics on national trends or rather local trends. See Berkshire Observatory.

I wonder if Bracknell was compared to the rest of Berkshire if it's decrease would be greater. I imagine having towns close by like Camberley and Basingstoke which have improved town centres while Bracknell continues to look grey with a lack of well know names could be keeping shoppers away from town?

What do you think?