This case is highly significant. Sunderland City Council misled the Department for Transport and the Secretary of State for Transport into granting Decriminalised Parking Enforcement powers by claiming that all their lines, signs and Traffic Regulation Orders would be correct and in force at the commencement of DPE on February 3rd 2003.
To date thousands of lines and signs have been corrected, and over 350 TROs changed.
The DfT is aware of all of this and is sitting on the question "What is the procedure required for the revocation of Sunderland City Council's DPE and who needs to intiate it?'
How many other local authorities have also taken shortcuts in their rush to implement the DPE Cash Cow?
Parking fines chaos
Scarborough Evening News
3rd April 2006
SCARBOROUGH'S on-street parking scheme was plunged into fresh controversy today after the Government refused to grant the borough council power to issue tickets for all parking offences.
Scarborough Council had hoped it would be granted decriminalised parking powers from today which would allow it to take over from police the issuing of fines to people who park illegally on yellow lines.
But concerns have been raised that the lines and signs which make up the on-street scheme do not follow the law and cannot be enforced – despite the council spending around £50,000 on a consultant to help prepare for decriminalisation.
The Department for Transport has refused to grant decriminalised parking powers until the issues are resolved. Read the rest of the story here
Tuesday, April 04, 2006
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5 comments:
Do you think this is the sort of thing they have in mind for the Legislative and Regulatory Reform Bill?
If so, doesn't it just add up to a rolling denial of justice?
Government departments are not immune from prosecution. Time to take the DoT to court me thinks, 'dereliction of duty'
Oh, they'll ave a lot more in mind with regards to the reform Bill.
Until that time however, essentially the DofT have admitted that decrim parking shouldn't have been implemented unless all signs etc were correct.
"Oh, they'll ave a lot more in mind with regards to the reform Bill."
Anyone else noticed how the word "reform" has become a synonym for "change"?
Sadly, most motorists do not realise that Councils already signed up on the decriminilisation scheme have a lot to answer for. Many road markings and signs are either incorrect or poorly placed, meaning that technically their PCN is invalid as the actual offence did not occur. For many Council's, it is a license to print money.
Incorrect signs are just the tip of the iceberg in the big money spinner that are PCN's. It's amazing that the very people who are there to 'help' people and 'support' them are in fact just farming them of their money, irrespective of their ability to pay or circumstances.
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