Councils Failing to Make Parking Pay ; Shortage of Wardens Is Blamed for Deficits

Sentinel, The; Stoke-on-Trent (UK) › July 15, 2009

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AUTHORITIES are losing money since taking over parking enforcement from police, because they have been unable to recruit enough wardens.

On-street parking was decriminalised in Newcastle and the Staffordshire Moorlands in autumn 2007, with responsibility for issuing fines shifting from the police to the district and borough councils. But according to the latest report to the Joint Staffordshire Parking Board, authorities across the county are struggling to break even.

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Councils Failing to Make Parking Pay ; Shortage of Wardens Is Blamed for Deficits

Figures for the Staffordshire Moorlands show that in the six months to March 2009, expenditure on civil parking enforcement (CPE...

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