A number of local authorities are actively examining introducing the charge in an attempt to raise funds as local budgets are slashed. Various London Councils are to attend a seminar next month that has a workplace parking levy on the agenda. Authorities in Milton Keynes, Cambridge and Oxford have all previously expressed an interest. Last [...]
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Motorists being hit by soaring parking ‘taxes’
Councils across Britain have been accused of declaring “war on the motorist” after introducing a raft of new parking charges to plug holes in their budgets. In towns and cities across the country, the cost of parking is soaring, with some local authorities doubling – and in one case trebling – their rates. Elsewhere, residents [...]
Westminster names and shames foreign parking fine dodgers
Westminster council is naming and shaming drivers of foreign-registered vehicles, many of them supercars, in an attempt to recover nearly £4 million owed in unpaid parking fines. The council claims the owners of Bugattis, Ferraris and Lamborghinis routinely flout parking restrictions because they know officials are powerless to trace them in their own countries. The [...]
Huge abuse of parking bays for the disabled in Harrow
Fraud officers discovered as many as 50 per cent of motorists illegally using parking passes meant for the disabled last week – in a six hour crackdown on blue-badge misuse. The anti-fraud team at Harrow Council, supported by police officers and parking enforcement staff, set up camp at Greenhill Way from 12 noon and 6pm [...]
Bikers’ lose bid to prevent £1 Westminster parking fee
Westminster council have won a landmark legal battle over charging motorcyclists to park in the street as the High Court dismissed a parking campaigner’s attempt to prevent officials levying a £1-a-day fee. A judge rejected claims by Warren Djanogly, of No To Motorbike Parking Fees, that the authority introduced it simply to raise revenue. He also [...]
Councils’ camera cars rake in £8 million a year in fines
Councils are gathering £8million a year in parking and motoring fines with a fleet of new camera cars. A study by Big Brother Watch found just 54 of the modified Smart cars have punished an astonishing 188,000 motorists. The survey found 31 councils across Britain have versions of the popular town car modified with a [...]
How not to park in Ealing!
A Mercedes car was left hanging off a roof after it crashed through the wall of a shopping centre in west London. The Metropolitan Police (Met) said the incident happened at 1015 BST, on the first floor car park at the Arcadia shopping centre in Ealing. Luckily, the driver managed to clamber out of the [...]
Richmond scraps green parking scheme
The London Borough of Richmond is set to scrap its CO2-related parking charge scheme three years after the previous Liberal Democrat administration pioneered the initiative. The Conservative-run council claims the scheme failed in its aim to encourage residents to change their cars to lower emission models. Richmond is still London’s worst polluting borough for CO2, [...]
School-run parents given free parking
FREE car park passes will be given to parents during the school rush hour in a bid to stamp out dangerous parking in Englefield Green, Near Ascot. The passes will be for council-run pay-and-display car parks for parents of pupils at St Jude’s and St Cuthbert’s schools, both in Bagshot Road. Runnymede Council’s economic development [...]
