Blue badge impact on parking revenue questioned

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MORE than six months after a move to charge disabled people in Aldershot and Farnborough to park their cars, the council has suffered a fall in income from parking revenue.

Rushmoor Borough Council introduced changes to the area's blue badge parking scheme in April, which meant disabled motorists have had to pay full fees to use council car parks if they are not automatically entitled to a badge.

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Prolific traffic warden clocks up £256k in fines

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A traffic warden has issued more tickets than any of his colleagues handing out an incredible 4,266 fines in one year.

That means the Cambridgeshire enforcement officer has given out  £256,000 in fines to motorists by issuing one in 10 tickets last year outstripping his fellow wardens.

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Plymouth City Council admits fine error after police diverted drivers

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Hundreds of motorists who followed a diversion during serious flooding have been sent fines.

Police directed traffic down a bus lane when an overflowing sewer closed Gdynia Way in recent deluges.

But new enforcement cameras were left switched on – and £60 fines are now landing on outraged drivers' doormats.

Council workers have now been told to write to everyone who was issued a penalty charge notice (PCN) during the Gdynia Way flooding fiasco.

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DMUK reveal shocking results of car parking survey

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With discussions over the transport legacy left by the Paralympics at a high and heightened awareness of the difficulties facing disabled travellers, there is no better time for DMUK to reveal the results of its car park survey.

The specially commissioned survey involved an audit of 20 city centre car parks from across England, Scotland and Wales to discover how accessible the UK’s car parks are for disabled people. The survey was divided into 3 areas of investigation: driver access; pedestrian access and general provisions and management of the car park. Shocking results

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Crass council incompetence - A sign of the times

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This is a great example of council incompetence in action.

Here is a photograph of a sign recently installed by Coventry City Council at their civic offices.

Please forward any other examples to info@nmag.co.uk

More than 150 councils barred from DVLA database after breaching motorists’ privacy

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More than 150 town halls have been blocked from accessing the DVLA database after breaking rules protecting motorists’ privacy.

In dozens of cases, councils were caught making unauthorised access to the database - which contains personal details of every licensed driver in the UK.

In others, officials were barred because they hadn’t kept proper records of who was accessing the database, how often and for what reason.

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DVLA tackles 294 public organisations for database abuse

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In the past three years, 294 public organisations have faced action over their use of the database containing details of car registrations and driving licenses.

In response to a Freedom of Information Act request from Big Brother Watch, the Driver and Vehicle Licensing Authority (DVLA) disclosed that the organisations were overwhelmingly local authorities, but included Sussex Police and Transport for London.

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