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Bid over double yellow parking

Drivers will be able to park on double yellow lines for 15 minutes under proposals to boost trade in neighbourhood high streets, but face stiffer fines for dangerous parking, it has emerged.

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'Common sense approach' over parking needed

Councils should adopt a common sense approach over parking enforcement, a local Conservative government said today, after the Communities Secretary Eric Pickles suggested that drivers could park on double yellow line for 15 minutes.

Brandon Lewis told The Daily Telegraph:

This Government has scrapped Whitehall rules that previously told councils to hike up parking charges, adopt draconian enforcement and impose arbitrary limits on off-street parking spaces.

Councils now need to play their part in reining back in the overzealous culture of municipal parking enforcement.

They should adopt a common sense approach. Ministers are considering what further steps can be taken to ensure that town hall parking policies and practices support local high streets.

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