Parking charges vary significantly across city councils in the UK, as do the chances of getting a ticket, a survey has shown. A survey by consumer watchdog Which? found that motorists in London face the highest cost of parking, followed by those in Manchester, Edinburgh and Leeds. Parking prices for an hour on the street [...]
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Diplomats owe more than £1m in Westminster parking fines
Foreign diplomats have racked up fines of more than £1m in Central London according to Westminster council bosses. The worst offender is the Kazakhstan embassy, which has accumulated £189,640 from 1,715 unpaid tickets, followed by the Sudanese embassy which managed to clock up £108,240 in fines for 1,005 tickets. While there are clearly multiple offenders [...]
Defy the parking bullies and appeal against fines, drivers told
Motorists were urged today to challenge tickets to beat “intimidation” by London councils. Campaigners said drivers were frightened off by threats of fines doubling if they appealed — when the odds are actually stacked in their favour. Britain’s largest motoring organisation, the AA, joined calls to make it easier for drivers to appeal. Of the [...]
Uproar Over Massive Hike In Parking Fines
Plans to squeeze more money out of hard-pressed motorists by nearly doubling the amount of parking fines were met with outrage recently. Councils are urging the Government to let them bump up penalties for parking as they seek to balance their books during the economic cutbacks, but motoring groups warned ministers it would leave local [...]
War on London drivers as army of traffic wardens hired to boost revenue
Drivers in central London face a new army of traffic wardens as councils use money raised from parking fines to plug the gap left by government cuts. Round-the-clock patrols will be mounted on the city’s busiest roads as Westminster council increases its number of attendants by 50 to 220. Westminster, which raised £41 million last [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Foreign embassy staff rack up huge London parking fines
Officials and dependants in UK have got off scot-free from 78 charges due to diplomatic immunity. They have been caught shoplifting and drink-driving, been accused of robbery and human trafficking, and two notable “offenders” each owe £3m in congestion charge fines. But instead of facing the full weight of the law this privileged group have [...]
2,000 extra parking spaces for car clubs promised
The number of parking spaces dedicated to car club vehicles in London is to double to 4,000, London Mayor Boris Johnson announced today. The Mayor, who is investing £500,000 to set up the new spaces by the end of next March, said: “Car clubs cut Londoners’ costs, help reduce congestion and ease pressure on parking. [...]
100 extra CCTV cameras mean more parking fines in Westminster
The number of motorists fined for parking offences in central London will rise from today as 100 CCTV “spy” cameras are switched on. The move follows a reprieve of nearly a year for drivers after the wireless cameras had to be switched off because they did not meet Department for Transport guidelines on image quality. [...]