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 [...]
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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 [...]
Parking charges victory as Westminster nightlife tax is abandoned
Westminster’s plans for evening and Sunday parking charges have been scrapped until after the Olympics. The victory for campaigners against the “tax on nightlife” came after a High Court judge ordered the council to put the plans on hold, saying there was a risk they would “damage businesses and churches”. The ruling was hailed as [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Pressure mounts on Westminster Council for parking charges U-turn
Pressure is mounting on Westminster Council to retract its controversial weekend and evening parking charges with the Mayor of London adding his voice to widespread concern about the plans. Boris Johnson says he has “grave misgivings” about the charges and has asked officials to review their impact. Meanwhile opposition Westminster Labour councillors have called for [...]
Westminster Town Hall’s ‘bogus congestion claims to justify evening parking charges’
Westminster council was today accused of making “bogus claims” about traffic congestion at night in the West End to justify evening parking charges. Council leaders have consistently argued that the fees are needed because the streets are now “every bit as busy” at night as during the day. But one transport expert has said that [...]
Judges asked to review Westminster parking fees
Westminster council is facing an unprecedented legal battle over plans to introduce “a tax on nightlife” with West End parking charges which will raise millions of pounds. It is being taken to the High Court following a rebellion led by top chefs, actors and night-time workers. In the biggest legal challenge of its kind, they [...]
West End stars sign petition against parking charges
Some of theatre’s biggest stars have signed a petition against plans to introduce evening and Sunday parking charges in London’s West End. Actors Tom Conti, Linda Bellingham, Bill Paterson and Roger Lloyd Pack have signed the petition against Westminster City Council’s plans. The Tory council intends to introduce parking charges of up to £4.80 an [...]
Parking Charges Lead to Suspension of Park Lane Antiques Fair
Changes in parking regulations in the West End of London have forced Jenny Glanville of KM Fairs to shelve her monthly antiques fair at the Park Lane Hotel on Piccadilly – the fixture started by her mother Kate Marlowe 35 years ago. On an experimental basis starting on January 9, parking changes rolled out across [...]