Benefits of Council parking enforcement

The main benefits of Council parking enforcement are

• Less illegal parking
• Improved traffic flows
• Safer traffic conditions
• Improved access to local shops and businesses
• An improvement in overall environmental conditions
• Parking enforcement is more locally accountable and adaptable. A co-ordinated parking enforcement service can be established, covering on- and off-street parking. Improved compliance should be seen in permitted parking spaces
• The design of future parking schemes such as residents' permit schemes, for which there is likely to be growing demand, can be undertaken in the knowledge that parking controls would be enforced as the council decided
• The Council aims for the service to be self-financing, other than for the initial funding period, although it will not recover the initial investment required to establish the scheme
• Police resources are freed up to be diverted to other purposes