Watch out Inverclyde - PCN coming to a street near you.

[matchmaker]

http://www.publiccontractsscotland.gov.uk/search/s...

The Cooncil said:

It is envisaged that between 2,500 and 5000 PCNs per year will be generated.

[jamiehamy]

Yup, was always on the cards. I like they way that the police gave up on issuing tickets and local authorities are now tasked with parking management, and I doubt there will be any transfer of budget. In short - the cooncil are footing the bills meaning less money to spend localy.

[Red Devil]

Scotland in 'catching up with what English LAs have doing for a decade' shocker!

The upper estimate of 5,000 PCNs seems incredibly low. The corresponding average figure for E&W LAs (excluding London) in the 2011/12 fiscal year was over 16,000.

[Who me ?]

jamiehamy said:

Yup, was always on the cards. I like they way that the police gave up on issuing tickets and local authorities are now tasked with parking management, and I doubt there will be any transfer of budget. In short - the cooncil are footing the bills meaning less money to spend localy.

IN a way ,can you blame the local police authority and County councils. If Police or police warden issues a ticket, the cash goes to Treasury, and even if there's any excess, the county grant from Whitehall stays at same figure ( or as is happening, decreases). It could be seen a political move as nowadays the PCN cash goes to county hall ,who can then subsidise the police budget.
I don't know about other parts of the country, but locally I'd suspect that a lot of the parking regulations are unenforceable by the civil parking enforcers, whereas a constable / police warden had the power to ticket for obstruction. Couple of streets locally where there's no waiting in operation. Except that the double yellows have gaps of at least five yards in them and the pavement markings are not rectangles, but more like triangles. Then there's the post mounted signs, which have the various coloured markings/lines in colours not as per the Road signs manual.