Parking mayhem in Warwick?
Warwick Today
Decriminalisation of parking cannot come soon enough for some visitors and residents in Warwick.
Illegally parked cars and drivers flouting the road restrictions in the town centre are making lives inconvenient for traders and shoppers.
But decriminalisation - which will see the responsibility of regulating parking shifted from the police to Warwickshire County Council by October next year - could go some way to reducing the number of scenes like this.
A lack of enforcement - in terms of the number of parking tickets and fines issued - is being blamed.
Resident Alan Batchelder said: "A few more parking tickets might remind certain drivers about their obligation to comply with the road signs and markings.
"The loading bays, taxi ranks and pedestrian zones are regularly used by drivers who disregard double yellow lines. "Are taxi ranks not used meant to be use for taxis these days?"
Legislation has been passed by government to make illegal parking a civil rather than criminal offence - as it currently stands.
And when it does, the number of wardens on duty in the district will rise from three to 22 and free parking will be removed from all town centre streets in Kenilworth, Warwick and Leamington.
The proposals have been supported by the Warwick chamber of trade.
Details of the finalised parking proposals were aired at a meeting in February and it was revealed that hundreds of drivers will be affected.
Traffic spokesman Roger Bennett, leading the scheme in the district, said: "People are going to have to change their parking habits.
"We have some indication of what will happen to the displaced cars but don't know exactly where they will go until decriminalisation comes into place."
Results from the survey showed that 732 car drivers per day in Leamington would be forced to find alternative parking arrangements on the outskirts of the town centre and in off-street car parks.
Research shows that Warwick will have 153 cars affected by the self-financing scheme in the town centre alone.All the funds raised from the £60 penalty tickets - reduced to £30 if paid within 14 days - will go to the county and district councils and pay for the parking attendants.
Decriminalisation of parking cannot come soon enough for some visitors and residents in Warwick.
Illegally parked cars and drivers flouting the road restrictions in the town centre are making lives inconvenient for traders and shoppers.
But decriminalisation - which will see the responsibility of regulating parking shifted from the police to Warwickshire County Council by October next year - could go some way to reducing the number of scenes like this.
A lack of enforcement - in terms of the number of parking tickets and fines issued - is being blamed.
Resident Alan Batchelder said: "A few more parking tickets might remind certain drivers about their obligation to comply with the road signs and markings.
"The loading bays, taxi ranks and pedestrian zones are regularly used by drivers who disregard double yellow lines. "Are taxi ranks not used meant to be use for taxis these days?"
Legislation has been passed by government to make illegal parking a civil rather than criminal offence - as it currently stands.
And when it does, the number of wardens on duty in the district will rise from three to 22 and free parking will be removed from all town centre streets in Kenilworth, Warwick and Leamington.
The proposals have been supported by the Warwick chamber of trade.
Details of the finalised parking proposals were aired at a meeting in February and it was revealed that hundreds of drivers will be affected.
Traffic spokesman Roger Bennett, leading the scheme in the district, said: "People are going to have to change their parking habits.
"We have some indication of what will happen to the displaced cars but don't know exactly where they will go until decriminalisation comes into place."
Results from the survey showed that 732 car drivers per day in Leamington would be forced to find alternative parking arrangements on the outskirts of the town centre and in off-street car parks.
Research shows that Warwick will have 153 cars affected by the self-financing scheme in the town centre alone.All the funds raised from the £60 penalty tickets - reduced to £30 if paid within 14 days - will go to the county and district councils and pay for the parking attendants.
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