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APCOA Parking (UK): All-round operator

APCOA Parking (UK): All-round operator

APCOA Parking (UK) operates across the on and off-street sectors, employing around 2,300 people. The company is part of a European group managing 1.4 million parking spaces in 17 countries. In the UK APCOA has over 80 off-street contracts, working in sectors such as airports, rail, hospitals and... continue

30 Sep 2011Parking Review Supplements

Balfour Beatty Workplace: Building a parking team

An unlikely name has cropped up in the world of civil enforcement. Balfour Beatty, best known for its construction projects, which has formed a partnership with North East Lincolnshire Council to manage both on and off-street parking. But civil parking enforcement (CPE) is just one of a broad range... continue

30 Sep 2011Parking Review Supplements

Britannia Parking: Good company parking

Britannia Parking operates a mix of permanent multi-storey car parks and temporary sites awaiting development. Founded in 1989, Britannia Parking has been operating in the parking industry for over 20 years and is owned and controlled by its directors. Britannia’s portfolio is based around a... continue

30 Sep 2011Parking Review Supplements
CP Plus: Plus points

CP Plus: Plus points

CP Plus has built its business by specialising in the off-street sector,... continue

30 Sep 2011Parking Review Supplements

Creative Parking Solutions: One to watch

Creative Parking Solutions lays claim to being the first operator to offer enforcement of off-street car parks using automatic number plate recognition (ANPR). The company launched its proprietary TrafficGuard ANPR system in 2004 to monitor both limited free parking and paid-parking areas. Vehicles... continue

30 Sep 2011Parking Review Supplements
CSP: Premier league player

CSP: Premier league player

CSP has been specialising in venue and event parking management since winning contracts to run... continue

30 Sep 2011Parking Review Supplements
Empark: New business takes off

Empark: New business takes off

Empark, which operates some 375,000 spaces across Europe, has been operating in the UK for three years. Its biggest... continue

30 Sep 2011Parking Review Supplements

ECP: Eat, drink, love parking

Euro Car Parks (ECP) has been active in the UK parking sector for more than 30 years, building up a portfolio of over 750 sites across the UK and Ireland. ECP’s business encompasses town centre, retail, airport and business parking and is run from headquarters in London as well as offices in... continue

30 Sep 2011Parking Review Supplements

Excel Parking: Seeking to be excellent

Excel Parking Group is a family of parking operators that work across the country, serving both public and private sector clients. Excel Parking Services focuses on the management of off-street car parks in town centres, at shopping centres and locations such as the rail and health sectors. Key... continue

30 Sep 2011Parking Review Supplements
Gallan Parking: Giving vacant sites real value

Gallan Parking: Giving vacant sites real value

Gallan Parking is a recent entrant to the town and city centre parking sector, specialising in turning underused derelict or vacant land into car parks. Launched in 2009 by... continue

30 Sep 2011Parking Review Supplements
Green Parking: Ready to go

Green Parking: Ready to go

The Green Parking brand made its UK debut at Parkex 2011, offering to undertake off-street parking... continue

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Legion Parking: Marching forward

Legion Parking: Marching forward

Legion Parking Services’ lineage dates back to the 1920s, when it started life as the Royal British Legion Parking... continue

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MET Parking: Meeting clients’ parking needs

MET Parking Services specialises in running both public and office car parks for private sector clients such as retailers, fast-food outlets and property companies. The company focusses on the use of automatic number plate recognition (ANPR) technology to monitor paid, limited waiting and... continue

30 Sep 2011Parking Review Supplements

Mouchel: New player makes its mark

Infrastructure and business services group Mouchel seeks to provide all aspects of the parking service from policy through to operation, allowing clients to select individual elements or procure a full service from initial policy development through to contract management.  In developing... continue

30 Sep 2011Parking Review Supplements
NCP: A national service

NCP: A national service

National Car Parks, or NCP, has long been shorthand for car parking in Britain. Even after... continue

30 Sep 2011Parking Review Supplements
NSL: On patrol, in partnership

NSL: On patrol, in partnership

NSL Services has established itself as the market leader in the on-street parking enforcement sector, undertaking civil... continue

30 Sep 2011Parking Review Supplements

OPC: Looking after landowners

Observices Parking Consultancy (OPC) offers a range of parking management and enforcement solutions for landowners on a nationwide basis. The Hertfordshire-based company will patrol both public and staff parking areas, setting up payment and permit schemes where required.  It also undertakes... continue

30 Sep 2011Parking Review Supplements
Ontime Parking: An alternative route

Ontime Parking: An alternative route

Ontime Parking Solutions is now providing a ‘one-stop shop’ parking enforcement service covering all parking and moving traffic... continue

30 Sep 2011Parking Review Supplements

Parking Professionals: Call in the pros

Management company Parking Professionals is building up a portfolio of sites in London. For example, it has a five-year contract to run the car park at London’s Wimbledon Bridge House — known locally as “The fridge on the bridge”. Parking Professionals worked closely with... continue

30 Sep 2011Parking Review Supplements
Q-Park: At your service

Q-Park: At your service

Q-Park is a parking company that owns, leases and manages parking facilities across Europe.... continue

30 Sep 2011Parking Review Supplements
RCP Parking: Shapoor's winning recipe

RCP Parking: Shapoor's winning recipe

Hard work and determination have seen RCP Parking buck the economic trend this year – with new sites opening amid delight that the business... continue

30 Sep 2011Parking Review Supplements
Target Parking: Success story

Target Parking: Success story

Emma Sinclair, chief executive of Target Parking, was named Business Woman of the Year in the 'Start Up' Category... continue

30 Sep 2011Parking Review Supplements
Total Car Parks: First impressions count

Total Car Parks: First impressions count

Total Car Parks was launched in 2007 by Essy Eslamian, who has a senior management background in the hotel and restaurant businesses. Eslamian was keen to... continue

30 Sep 2011Parking Review Supplements

TCP: Planning on success

Town & City Parking (TCP) is an operator working for retailers and landlords in the private and public sector. The company, which is based in Perth, Scotland, has a nationwide reach. The company generates an annual turnover of £16m from the 1,100 car parks it runs for key clients such as... continue

30 Sep 2011Parking Review Supplements
TCCP: At the centre of things

TCCP: At the centre of things

Town Centre Car Parks (TCCP) is a division of Town Centre Securities, a Leeds-based property investment and... continue

30 Sep 2011Parking Review Supplements
VINCI Park UK: Driving standards

VINCI Park UK: Driving standards

Improving the perception of parking is a challenge that companies like VINCI Park UK are intent on tackling. Based in Watford,... continue

30 Sep 2011Parking Review Supplements
On the right tracks

On the right tracks
Richard Talbot

There are about 150,000 rail parking spaces across... continue

28 Sep 2011Parking Review Supplements
Taking the pain out of outsourcing

Taking the pain out of outsourcing
Penny Winder

Local authorities often see outsourcing the enforcement, notice processing, car park management and... continue

28 Sep 2011Parking Review Supplements
Delivering the goods

Delivering the goods
Paul Plumbley

Parking is a vital component of the Land Securities... continue

28 Sep 2011Parking Review Supplements
Protecting private land

Protecting private land

When a car is left without permission on private land, or overstays its allotted time in a... continue

28 Sep 2011Parking Review Supplements
Positive prescription for hospital parking

Positive prescription for hospital parking

A ‘Charter for Hospital Parking’ published by the British Parking Association (BPA) is backed by the NHS Confederation and the Healthcare Facilities... continue

28 Sep 2011Parking Review Supplements
Bomb-sites are back

Bomb-sites are back

Cranes on the skyline are a good indicator of a healthy economy. So, the... continue

28 Sep 2011Parking Review Supplements
Car parks with extras

Car parks with extras

Besides daily and season parking fees, there are several ways in which car parks... continue

28 Sep 2011Parking Review Supplements
All I really want is....

All I really want is....

More car park operators seem to feel that drivers place the cost of parking above location when... continue

28 Sep 2011Parking Review Supplements
Meet the parking enforcers

Meet the parking enforcers

Some 297 local authorities in England and Wales conduct civil parking enforcement (CPE) under the... continue

28 Sep 2011Parking Review Supplements
Views from both sides of the street

Views from both sides of the street

The on-street parking enforcement market is currently dominated by three major contractors — APCOA, NSL Services and VINCI Park... continue

28 Sep 2011Parking Review Supplements
Competition time

Competition time

There has been some consolidation in the UK parking market in... continue

28 Sep 2011Parking Review Supplements
Shape of the parking market

Shape of the parking market

The UK parking management sector is quite a diverse one, with a group of major international players at its... continue

28 Sep 2011Parking Review Supplements
Parking: The essential service

Parking: The essential service
Mark Moran

Parking is an essential service in towns, cities, at airports, shopping centres, rail... continue

28 Sep 2011Parking Review Supplements
The Essential Guide to Parking Management

The Essential Guide to Parking Management
Mark Moran

Car parking is everywhere, yet for drivers there often never seems to be enough space in the right place at just the right... continue

28 Sep 2011Parking Review Supplements

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