Q-Park has added a hotel car park serving London’s Covent Garden to its portfolio. The operator is now running the St Martins Lane Hotel car park, which has been renamed as Q-Park Covent Garden. Located in Bedfordbury, the 36-space car park is being marketed to people visiting attractions including the West End theatre district, the English National Opera at the Coliseum, Royal Opera House, Trafalgar Square, Covent Garden and Seven Dials. Q-Park has introduced pre-booking to the site so that visitors can book ahead and ensure a parking space is available. The car park also has a disabled parking bay and 12 motorcycle spaces. Q-Park is helping the hotel’s owners, sbe London, to procure new parking equipment which will include an APT Veripark ANO activated barrier.... continue
Network Rail has sold the Quadrant:MK multi-storey to parking operator Indigo. The car park is located close to the Milton Keynes Central railway station and one of the main lines from London to... continue
Simpler rules regulating how councils buy goods and services after Brexit could boost local growth and create jobs, the Local Government Association (LGA) has said. Council leaders say the government needs to introduce a more efficient system regulating how councils buy goods and services when the... continue
Online parking reservation provider ParkCloud has expanded its global network by adding Luxembourg and New Zealand to a portfolio that now encompasses 41 countries. ParkCloud is now working with Luxembourg airport and New Zealand’s Wellington airport. It has also been expanding its network by... continue
Parkmobile Group has expanded its UK offices to support international growth of its... continue
The British government has said it wants to avoid creating a hard border between Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland after the UK leaves the European Union (EU) in March 2019. Northern Ireland is the only part of the UK that will share a land border with an EU member state post-Brexit.... continue
Leeds-based airport parking price comparison... continue
US computer chip manufacturer Intel has signalled its interest in the autonomous driving market by purchasing Israeli technology company Mobileye. Intel is reported to have paid $15.3bn for Mobileye, which manufactures cameras, sensors and software. Mobileye supplies technology to most major... continue
Most drivers in the UK still prefer to pay for parking by... continue
NSL, a provider of civil enforcement services, has been awarded a Platinum accreditation by Investors in People (IiP). The company, which has 4,000 employees in 250 locations around the country specialises in the delivery of frontline, back office and customer support services in public sector and... continue
Local authorities could be enabled to charge utility companies by the hour during roadworks, under proposals being consulted on... continue
Local authorities across England and Wales can now add their traffic regulation orders (TROs) to an online database hosted by the Traffic Penalty Tribunal (TPT). Councils create TROs to apply traffic management controls to... continue
The Traffic Penalty Tribunal (TPT) will hear appeals from drivers issued penalties in relation to the new Mersey Gateway between Runcorn and Widnes. Due to open in the autumn, the Mersey Gateway is a six-lane cable-stayed toll bridge over the River Mersey and a 9.2km road network connecting... continue
A north London takeaway that was caught repeatedly dumping its... continue
A driver has been jailed for causing the death of a friend after he... continue
Police forces across Wales will now accept... continue
Islington Council has been fined £70,000 by... continue
Drivers who park so they cause a hazard to other road users and pedestrians are being targeted in a road safety crackdown by Leicester City Council. Motorists now face immediate fines if they park recklessly in areas such as school zig-zag markings, in bus clearways or on double yellow lines in... continue
City of Edinburgh Council has launched the third phase of its roll-out of 20mph speed limits. The council says that calming traffic has... continue
The owners of three abandoned vehicles have been ordered to pay a total of £4,700 following successful prosecutions by St Edmundsbury Borough Council. Abandoning vehicles is a criminal offence and carries a maximum fine of £2,500 and potentially three months imprisonment. St... continue
Projects to improve the Blue Badge parking schemes, trials of... continue
Cheshire West and Chester Council has scrapped the ‘Free after 3’ discount parking scheme that operated across Chester city centre. A study by consultants Mott MacDonald suggested that ‘Free after 3’ added to the evening congestion, and that as the majority of trips were... continue
International Parking Systems UK has appointed Damian Devanney as regional manager for Scotland and the North of England. Devanney has a background in parking, including six years working with Metric Group where he specialised in providing parking solutions to the UK market. “I am... continue
Bev Osborne has joined civil enforcement agent Equita in the newly created role of senior client services manager. Osborne has worked in both the private and public sectors, including roles with Capital One, Nottingham City Council and Nottingham Revenues & Benefits, where she was business... continue
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