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‘Unfair’ and ‘unlawful’ parking fine system should be overhauled
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The parking fine system should be overhauled to eliminate unfair and often unlawful issuing of punishments, according to campaigners.
The London Motorists' Action Group, Drivers' Alliance and The Motorists' Legal Challenge Fund have issued a joint manifesto that says that any profit made from fines should go to the Treasury, not local councils. It also calls for parking restriction road signs to be simplified and a reduction in the number of mobile CCTV units used for enforcement.
The group also says that some of the paperwork involved with the system is, "a shambles and at worse illegal". It suggests that councils should pay compensation for parking fines that are wrongly issued or not contested when the driver takes the case to appeal.
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‘Unfair’ parking fines system should be overhauled – campaigners
London councils liable for £5m parking bill
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Five London councils could be forced to repay millions in parking fines after an investigation revealed that parking bays reserved for diplomats were unlawful.
Westminster, Kensington and Chelsea, Camden and Islington all admitted to the BBC that they had failed to gain the necessary permission from the Department of Transport before installing road signs restricting 346 parking spaces to foreign embassy staff use only.
As the road signs do not comply with the law, no one can be penalised for parking in the bays and all tickets previously issued could be invalid.
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