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Parking Review
Feature
Patrick McDonnell
Cities Across England and Wales are actively seeking powers from the government equal to those available to London councils to enable them to enforce... continue
Parking Review
Enforcement News
Yellow lines and lines marking parking bays have been removed from streets and the squares of Bloomsbury in central London in a £5m public... continue
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News Lead Story
Deniz Huseyin
The Protection of Freedoms Act, which outlaws wheel clamping and the removal of vehicles on private land, has gained Royal Assent. Section 54 of the... continue
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News Lead Story
Deniz Huseyin
Councils outside London look set to be given powers to enforce moving traffic offences such as illegal U-turns, blocking yellow box junctions and... continue
Parking Review
Operational
The Department for Transport (DfT) has published an advisory leaflet on the revised regulations covering traffic signs. The Traffic Signs (Amendment)... continue
Categories: signs & lines, DfT
Parking Review
Developments Lead Story
The government has made concessions to countryside campaigners and planners by introducing safeguards against car-based development into the final... continue
Parking Review
Debates
The views and needs of the parking sector are being listened to by the coalition government, especially with regard to the enforcement of parking on... continue
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Parking Policy
The process by which councils and the Highways Agency introduce new traffic restrictions is set to be streamlined by the Department for Transport... continue
Parking Review
Enforcement News Lead Story
The Local Government Association is pressing the DfT to reconsider its decision not to give local authorities outside London powers to enforce moving... continue
Parking Review
Electric vehicles
The government is to extend the Plug-in Car grant to vans, transport minister Norman Baker has announced. He said the Plug-in Van grant would provide... continue
Categories: funding, green parking, DfT
Parking Review
Enforcement News
The minimum penalty charge for parking contraventions in England will be scrapped under plans announced by the Department for Transport (DfT). A 2007... continue
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Enforcement News Lead Story
The new look Blue Badge, which went live today, is harder to forge, claims transport minister Norman Baker. Previously, Blue Badges were made from... continue
Parking Review
Parking Policy Lead Story
The Department  for Transport (DfT) effectively blocked local authorities in England from introducing workplace parking levy schemes, declaring... continue
Parking Review
Payment systems
Buchanan Computing has released version 2.7 of SignPlot to cater for all the new signs included in the Department for Transport’s upcoming... continue
Categories: signs & lines, DfT
Parking Review
Letters
Gordon Bell
I noted with interest your story on the Government’s signing review and, in particular, the comment that most parking signs will be removed... continue
Parking Review
Lead Story
English local authorities outside London will not be given the powers to enforce moving traffic contraventions such as driving in banned turns and... continue
Parking Review
Viewpoint
Simon Morgan
Not only has the Department for Transport’s (DfT) Traffic Signs Policy Review now resulted in a published set of proposals (Signing the Way),... continue
Parking Review
News Lead Story
Trevor Whitehouse, founder of National Clamps and president of the Parking Enforcement Association, has launched an e-petition in a... continue
Parking Review
Letters
Trevor Whitehouse
The Protection of Freedoms Bill heads off to the Lords, yet there is one provision, which was slipped in rather quickly, that has no rhyme or... continue
Parking Review
Parking Policy Lead Story
A major overhaul of parking signage is likely to go ahead as part of the overhaul of the Traffic Signs Regulations and General Directions (TSRGD),... continue
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