County’s loss-making enforcement project faces axe

16 January 2008
 
A car-parking enforcement scheme in Lancashire is to be dropped, after projected figures have shown it is not expected to break even.

The figures predict the Parkwise scheme will be almost £1M in the red by 2009, when the contract between 13 Lancashire authorities and national parking company NCP, which runs the scheme, comes to an end.

Parkwise was introduced in 2004, and is a partnership between Lancashire County Council and 12 borough and district councils. It has been controversial, with motorists since its inception – many drivers have claimed that ‘over zealous’ parking wardens have been issuing tickets for no good reason.

Councillor Tony Martin, cabinet member at Lancashire with responsibility for highways, said: ‘We expected the scheme to make a loss in the beginning because we had to train people and put the administration in place – but it was always planned that parking fines would cover the cost.’

The figures for 2009 show that Parkwise will have taken in £10M in parking fines by the time the current contract ends, but it will have cost almost £11M to administer. Cllr Martin added: ‘We entered into this in a spirit of goodwill and we hoped it would solve our car parking problems. But we have to be realistic and we cannot run the scheme at a loss.’ 

The county council is to officially inform the 12 other authorities that the contract with NCP will not be renewed next year. Officers at the county council will now draw up a set of alternative proposals.

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