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 [...]
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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 [...]
Croydon council continued its ‘unfair’ parking fines policy
Croydon Council has admitted it was wrong to fine motorists for parking in part of the town centre – but continued to do so anyway. Drivers were this week calling for enforcement to be suspended outside The Skylark pub on South End and questioned where else wardens were unfairly issuing tickets. In September, parking bosses [...]
Lambeth plans mobile telephone parking system
Lambeth council has published a tender for the supply, implementation, operation and support of a mobile telephone parking payment system, worth up to £30.5m. According to a notice in the Official Journal of the European Union, the three year deal will cover online parking software and other “innovative” applications. The chosen supplier will be expected [...]
Westminster chief underestimated loss of parking spaces by five times
Campaigners are demanding a top-level inquiry into how Westminster council underestimated the number of parking bays threatened by its planned “nightlife tax” by 500 per cent. The Evening Standard revealed recently that while the official figure used throughout the public consultation into plans to replace single-yellow lines with pay & display bays across the West [...]
Parking Fines In Hounslow Borough down by 5%
The number of parking fines issued in the borough of Hounslow as fallen by 5 % according to the latest report from the Council. And it seems that local residents are amongst the best in London at paying up when they get a fine. More than three-quarters of those who received a ticket paid their [...]
Westminster Council to Axe 1,200 West End Single Yellow Line Parking Spaces in Defiance of High Court Order
Westminster Council has this afternoon announced that it has decided to convert 1,191 single yellow line parking spaces in the West End to double yellow lines in January, thereby making it illegal to park at any time. The anouncement, made at 3.30pm on 23rd December, comes just a week after the High Court ordered Westminster [...]
MPs hit out at Enfield Sunday parking charges plan
Politicians have slammed “contradictory” plans to introduce Sunday parking charges in Enfield Town next month. Enfield Council plans to charge drivers similar fees to current weekday prices to park in the town centre from January 8, just weeks after backing and funding a campaign to boost local trade. The Love Your High Streets campaign was [...]