CitiPark is letting customers pay for parking with plastic bottles as part of a recycling initiative at its flagship Merrion Centre site in Leeds. To claim the money off parking, customers must personally hand all bottles to the CitiPark office attendant in the CitiPark customer service suite at... continue
South Western Railway (SWR) has appointed APCOA Parking (UK) at all 135 station car parks across its franchise. The contract is for four years and comes with a possible extension of one year. It commenced on 20 September. APCOA is responsible for providing car park management and new technology,... continue
Andrew Higginson, chairman of retailer Morrisons, has been appointed as non-executive chairman of online parking portal YourParkingSpace.co.uk. The arrival of Higginson, which is in an external capacity to his current... continue
Car parks are a vital element of shopping centres, but how does parking fit into the business of retail? Insights into the running costs, tariffs, profitability and impact of technology on retail parking is provided by property services company JLL, which has just... continue
Digital parking specialist AppyParking is among a group of companies that will join the Intelligent Mobility (IM) Accelerator in Milton Keynes. The second cohort of UK businesses successful businesses are working on: making it easier to park; predicting road accidents; managing swarms of autonomous... continue
Q-Park has launched the Employee Parking Platform for city centre companies that want to offer employees an extra benefit. The platform is free to the companies that sign-up. The platform has flexible payment and contract options and allows employees to buy an annual, quarterly or monthly season... continue
Hertfordshire-based automatic number plate recognition (ANPR) system manufacturer RoadPixel has been acquired by Vaxtor Technologies. The move will see Vaxtor relocate its international headquarters from Spain to the UK. The combined Vaxtor and RoadPixel operation will be renamed Vaxtor and will... continue
Mobile payments specialist Passport has appointed Adam Warnes to head up its UK operations. Warnes was previously head of parking at Westminster City Council. Passport is a US-based company whose product lines span parking payment,... continue
A civil enforcement officer was dragged off his moped and assaulted by a gang of youths on a Birmingham street. The attack on CEO Charlie Weston, who works for... continue
East Hertfordshire District Council, Stevenage Borough Council and Welwyn Hatfield Borough Council have appointed APCOA Parking (UK) as their parking management contractor. The five-year contract, which comes into effect on 17 January 2019, covers services including the enforcement of on-street and... continue
Lincolnshire County Council has appointed APCOA Parking (UK) to run its notice processing service. The five-year contract will see APCOA provide a full back office service to the county’s parking enforcement contract, which is also operated by APCOA. APCOA is working with parking... continue
Civil enforcement agency JBW Group has acquired Phoenix Commercial Collections. JBW fully acquired the shares of Phoenix with funding provided by its Japanese-based parent company... continue
Issuing parking patrol officers with body-worn cameras has led to a dramatic reduction in assaults in Ipswich over the past year. Verbal assaults on parking staff dropped to 12 in 2018, a 66% reduction, while just one civil enforcement officer (CEO) has been physically assaulted since the cameras... continue
Parking management undertaken by councils is an “essential public service” that benefits London’s economy while helping to deal with traffic, improve air quality and ensure better road safety, states a report commissioned by London Councils. The London boroughs association commissioned consultant Integrated... continue
Bristol City Council has suggested introducing a workplace parking levy or a congestion charge to fund significant investments in public transport infrastructure. The prospect of new levies on motorists is raised in the Bristol Transport Strategy, which sets out how the city’s council... continue
There is widespread support in Scotland for better regulation of the management of parking on private land, a consultation on proposed legislation indicates. Respondees also want to see an independent appeals service, but do not like the idea of introducing keeper liability, the consultation... continue
A petition calling for an immediate end to car parking charges at all NHS hospitals was delivered to Number 10 Downing Street last month (10 September). The online... continue
Jade Neville has become parking services manager for OCS Group in Milton Keynes. Her new role involves the running and maintenance of parking enforcement provision in the... continue
Nigel Coltman has bee appointed as the new chief executive of Smart Parking Technology in the UK. Coltman joins the... continue
Cycling duo raise £40k for air ambulance and fight against motor neurone disease Tim Daniels, sales and... continue
The multi-storey car park at Preston Bus Station has been awarded a Park Mark under the Safer Parking Scheme. The car park at the Grade II-Listed... continue
Car park structure refurbishment specialist Cemplas has opened a new regional office covering the Midlands and North. The new... continue
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