To help residents with their Christmas shopping, and to see in the New Year, Enfield Council is introducing free parking for the next three Saturdays in the Council’s town centre car park. The Council is working with Enfield Business & Retailers Association and local business associations to promote Enfield’s town centres in the ‘Love Your [...]
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Westminster Council’s parking consultation ‘contempt’
Westminster Council spent £400,000 preparing to charge drivers for weekend parking before consultations were complete, BBC London has learned. The authority has faced protests over plans to charge for West End parking during weekends and evenings. It has now emerged the six-figure sum was spent on signage despite residents’ opinions still being sought. Labour said [...]
Olympic disaster for drivers
Millions of Brits face fines of £3,400 during the Olympics unless they have permits to park outside their own homes. Huge “no-parking” zones are being thrown up around all Olympic venues during next year’s Games. Anyone living or working within a 30-minute walk of an event will need a parking permit. If they don’t have [...]
Hammersmith and Fulham council freezes parking charges
One of London’s most congested boroughs has frozen parking charges to help residents and businesses cope with the economic slowdown. The move by Hammersmith & Fulham is in sharp contrast to the decision by Westminster to impose new charges in the West End. Nick Botterill, Hammersmith’s deputy leader, said: “We know that local people are [...]
Parking dubbed the new poll tax as cost of permits more than doubles
The price of parking permits in London has soared in the past three years, an investigation revealed today. Campaigners labelled the council charges a “poll tax” for car owners, with fees going up by as much as 150 per cent in some boroughs. It follows a huge backlash against Westminster City Council’s plan to scrap [...]
Resident parking permit costs increase across London
Councils in London have generated over £186m in revenue from parking permits in the last three years according to a series of Freedom of Information requests from BBC Inside Out. Across London as a whole, the total amount raised from permits has increased each year for the past three years. In 10 London boroughs, the [...]
Ken Livingstone criticises Bexley for parking fines
London mayor candidate Ken Livingstone has slammed Bexley Council for its “religious fanaticism” in raising money through parking fines. Mr Livingstone made the comments when he visited the borough on Monday ahead of next year’s mayoral election. He met with train passengers at Erith Railway Station and students at Bexley College before visiting Welling and [...]
Richmond Council removes CCTV parking penalty cars
Four CCTV camera cars which were involved in more than 18,500 wrongly-issued parking fines being handed out have been removed by Richmond Council. The decision to remove the cars was taken at a meeting on Thursday. In July, the south-west London council agreed to pay out about £1m in wrongly issued penalty charge notices issued [...]
Free weekend parking in Ealing until Christmas
Most car parks across Ealing will be free of charge at weekends throughout December. The council hopes it will attract residents to shop, eat and drink locally in the run-up to Christmas. Council leader Julian Bell said: “When we offered free weekend parking in the weeks following the summer riots, businesses and traders in Ealing [...]
Parking Wars in London
It’s Thursday evening in the West End of London and the Christmas lights are glimmering as tourists swarm and pub crowds spill out on to the pavements. But as she parks her beloved Nissan Micra amid the immaculate stores of Savile Row, Sheila Murray is feeling little festive cheer. “It’s just so unfair,” she says, on the [...]