The human factor

Parking authorities must strike the right balance between offering a public service and assuming a commercial role, Tendring’s Ian Taylor tells Deniz Huseyin

Tendring District Council’s Ian Taylor is bracing himself for a period of intense spending cuts as decreed by central government. Tendring carries out parking enforcement under an agency agreement with Essex County Council, which is calling on its 11 districts to ensure their on-street enforcement operations break even at the very least.

Taylor accepts this is necessary but fears that, under growing pressure, councils may start to lose sight of their primary purpose. “It should be...

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