Drivers were hit by £1.2million in parking fines in single street last year. Fifty motorists a DAY were clobbered by wardens or CCTV cameras in busy Southampton Row, central London. The road in the borough of Camden saw 19,335 tickets issued to net authorities £1,198,870. It headed a list of ten roads in the capital [...]
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£1.5m fines on 100-yard stretch of road
Motorists have been fined £1.5 million in a year for parking on a 100-yard stretch of road. Many claim to be baffled by no fewer than eight signs. A total of 11,880 drivers have been penalised at Harben Parade in Swiss Cottage, raising £1,544,400 for Transport for London. The ticket tally accounts for three quarters [...]
London Hospitals Lead the Way in ‘Taxing the Sick’ with Parking Charges
London hospitals have the highest parking fees in the country and Chelsea and Westminster gets away with charging £3.50 an hour against a national average of 77p, a new report has revealed. Today’s figures from the NHS Information Centre show that 28% of hospitals in the UK increased parking charges between 2010 and 2011, with [...]
One million Olympic Games parking permits to be issued
A million parking permits are set to be issued to help control traffic for the London 2012 Games. Up to 400,000 properties, businesses and homes will be hit by restrictions, some of which will already be in place or include extended hours. London 2012 has 34 competition venues. The free permits are part of the [...]
Drop-in sessions planned to discuss Olympic parking zones in Waltham Forest
There will be a chance for people to have their say on residents-only parking zones during the Olympics during drop-in sessions over the next week. Games organisers will be on hand to answer questions about permit controlled parking zones at the Plum Tree studio of the Leyton Leisure Lagoon in Leyton High Road tomorrow (Thursday) [...]
London Councils want DVLA’s secret data on drivers
London councils want unprecedented access to confidential driver and vehicle data to tackle illegal parking. Town halls are considering using the Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency database to manage permits and fines, but campaigners fear it will lead to more incorrect tickets being issued and increased surveillance of drivers. The DVLA said councils now have [...]
Buckhurst Hill Traders’ fears for future after being excluded from parking review
Traders in a shopping arcade claim that a sudden and unforseen steep rise in the number of commuters parking on their street could force them out of business. In 2007 residents and traders in Station Way, Buckhurst Hill, were initially consulted over whether they wanted new parking restrictions imposed in their street as part of [...]
Enfield Council votes to keep Sunday parking charges
Conservative councillors failed in their bid to end the controversial new Sunday parking charges, which were introduced in Enfield town earlier this month. At Wednesday’s full council meeting Terry Neville slammed the council’s “flawed” decision to press ahead with the scheme which he claimed could cripple Enfield high street as shoppers flock to large, out-of-town [...]
Parking fine ‘quotas’ in London ‘dishonest’ – judge
A parking enforcement firm operated a “clandestine quota system” to issue tickets to motorists in a “predatory and dishonest” way, a judge has found. A ruling seen by BBC London details how NSL, working for Kensington and Chelsea Council, set its wardens a minimum target of 10 tickets a working shift. It is illegal to [...]