Parking schemes to ease off?

MPs set to bring in national standards

Parking regulations could be in for an overhaul, according to a story on the BBC. MPs on the Transport Select Committee has been looking at the problems experienced by people across the country as deregulated parking schemes have proliferated, and they're now run by local authorities rather than the police.

Councils have set up schemes that seem designed more about making money than balancing the needs of motorists and traders, according to observers such as the AA Trust. And some 20 per cent of parking tickets are rescinded following complaints.

As a result, MPs on the committee seem set to call for new regulations to enforce minimum standards across the country, according to the story. So rather than some of the draconian schemes being pushed at local council tax-payers, the future might means such schemes -- most of which are run under contract by NCP -- become more lenient and proportional in their response to a poor parking decision.