Parking Offences
The question
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what steps she is taking to help prevent dangerous parking in residential areas.
Answered by Jim McMahon
Parking is the responsibility of local authorities, and they are best placed to decide what is best for their local area.
Local Authorities are empowered to determine their parking arrangements through the Traffic Management Act 2004, which requires them to ensure that parking policies be proportionate, support town centre prosperity, and reconcile competing demands for kerb space whilst ensuring traffic moves freely and quickly on their roads and the roads of nearby authorities.
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