Young Parking Professional: Katy Spain, Ceredigion County Council

Katy Spain’s first management role saw bringing order to the streets of Ceredigion, where the withdrawal of police traffic wardens had led to a parking free-for-all

Aberystwyth became famous as a town without parking controls after the police withdrew its traffic warden service, and then infamous as a town in which parking chaos ensued. The job of bringing order to this situation fell to Katy Spain, in her first major role as a local authority officer at Ceredigion County Council. 

In June 2011 Spain was seconded to the role of project officer, tasked with the job of introducing civil parking enforcement in Ceredigion. Despite no previous parking...

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