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 [...]
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Parking will remain free in Richmond and Bushy parks
Park lovers will be pleased to hear parking will continue to remain free in both Richmond and Bushy parks. The reassurance came following concerns about what would happen when responsibility for the day-to-day running of the Royal Parks is transferred to a new board at the start of 2012. Mark Camley, chief executive of the [...]
Thousands have parking fines refunded by Richmond Council
Wrongly issued parking tickets making £1.1 million will be refunded by a London council. Campaigners believe an admission by Richmond upon Thames council that its mobile CCTV vans had the wrong kind of cameras installed could open the door to a flood of other claims across the capital. Conservative-run Richmond has apologised after being caught [...]
Richmond plans to purge streets of double yellows
Hundreds of metres of double yellow lines could be removed from six target towns in Richmond upon Thames before the end of the financial year, after local people told the Council it was difficult to park in shopping areas. Richmond Council is preparing to remove lines and create extra parking spaces in town centres particularly [...]
Motorists could get CCTV fines refunded
As many as 24 local authorities face potential claims from motorists after a successful challenge to a ticket by a driver in Richmond-upon-Thames, west London. Nigel Wise contested a ticket issued by a mobile unit claiming that the device had not been formally approved by the Department for Transport. His appeal was upheld by the Parking [...]
Richmond Council to return £1m parking fines
Drivers could get back more than £1m paid out in parking fines after a London council found the penalty charge notices (PCNs) were “unlawful”. Richmond Council said more than 20,000 PCNs given between April 2009 and April 2011 by CCTV cars cannot be imposed as the cars were “not properly certified”. Refund appeals made by [...]
Hope for motorists in landmark CCTV parking fine victory
Drivers issued parking tickets by mobile CCTV vans across London could have their fines quashed, it emerged recently. Campaigners say the case of one motorist who managed to get a ticket overturned on a technicality could lead to thousands of other similar penalties being cancelled. When Nigel Wise, 59, received a £100 fine he discovered [...]
Richmond Fairer Parking scheme delayed
A scheme to give people living in property to rent in the London borough of Richmond-upon-Thames a discount on their parking has been delayed. The Fairer Parking system was supposed to come into force on April 1st, but this date has been pushed back until June 30th. This is to allow the maximum number of [...]
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, [...]
Car parking wars
From the Daily Telegraph; Sobering reading… Driveways, garages – even forecourts, if your car is small enough – could soon have more impact on the value of your home than a Smallbone kitchen or converted attic, following a dramatic swing in the way local councils across Britain are now milking the motorist. It started three [...]