Group welcomes guidance to enforce civil parking

01 November 2007
 
Local traffic authorities have welcomed proposed new operational guidance on civil parking enforcement, claiming it would generally strengthen their hands.

The Technical Advisors Group welcomed the draft which, together with new Traffic Management Act 2004 regulations, would allow councils to issue penalty charge notices for ‘obstructive’ double parking, or blocking dropped kerbs, ‘to help keep traffic – including pedestrians – moving’.

Another ‘important change’ was that the guidance would allow councils to issue PCNs by post, when drivers moved their vehicles before civil enforcement officers could issue them, said John Elliott, TAG’s transportation committee secretary. Transport secretary, Ruth Kelly, highlighted measures in the draft, likely to be popular with motorists, including how it discourages clamping (Surveyor, 23 August).

TAG said authorities would want to retain the right to use it against persistent offenders, and not just persistent evaders, as the Government envisaged. ‘It’s not right that people should be allowed to persistently flout the rules,’ said Elliott. London boroughs had noticed that Mercedes and BMW owners were more likely to ignore restrictions.

The British Parking Association, meanwhile, while predicting that the new rules would be ‘good for the industry,’ expressed concern over their implementation. ‘Authorities won’t be able to enforce under the old rules from 1 April – but reviewing all council traffic regulation orders by then will be challenging,’ said Keith Banbury, BPA chief executive.

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