Cornwall’s ‘no change’ pay & display machines made an extra £300k a year

28 March 2014

Cornwall County Council Cllr Sally Hawken, cabinet member for transport and waste Bert Brisco and Jane Pascoe, secretary of Liskeard Chamber of Commerce, launch the 30-minute free parking service

Cornwall Council made an extra £300,000 because its parking machines do not give change, a Freedom of Information (FoI) request has revealed. Last year £11.6m was paid in parking fees, of which an estimated £307,293 was due to “over-vend”, the council said in response to the question. In 2011/12 it made £340,000 extra from machines that do not give change.

The council said that stocking the 250 machines with change would be too costly. The machines would also...