General Discussion

And the wheels on the bus go round and round....so Teignbridge car parks will be "free" on Sundays for the winter. That's a good thing. But the general public, having read the Gazette, will fail to notice that Teignbridge do not control the on street parking-which is of course controlled by Devon county- and will park on meters on Sundays and the good traffic wardens will duly ticket them. This is last year all over again!

Lynne, Teignbridge do control the parking of off street and on street parking and will ticket when relevant, Devon County Council are authorised by the minister for transport to operate Control of parking but have appointed TDC to enforce as acting agents throughout Teignbridge on their behalf.

Same district councils, different rules to milk the cash cow. I maintained last year, that in order for traders to benefit from the free parking...it should apply to ALL parking, but 12 months later.....

@User 4549 - did you mean to address your posting above to me or to willosindawlish?

It was to you Lynne thats why I put your name

I'm obviously missing something here. Thank you for the info but still not sure why you addressed it to me in particular.    

Lynne my apologies you were right and I was wrong, it should have been addressed to willosindawlish

@willosindawlish the newspaper article makes it very clear that this relates to the car parks only. i agree that it should be every sunday, year round. maybe our new town centre manager will take this on board?

Indeed it does.so what reason can there be not to have free parking on the meters as well? Because if that we're made the case, there would be no need to have traffic wardens on a Sunday, which would of course save money. I still think its a mere gesture rather than a practical rethink.

When the Police controled parking Sundays where always free its now all about money but if we all parked legally so no tickets where ever issued i wonder how long it would be before the wardens dissapeared

Since 2008 when DCC introduced their parking regime they have lost £600.000 goes to show that councillors have no idea how to set up a business plan, they also paid Parsons Brinkerhoff £350.000 to map and update traffic orders, when I asked (using FOI) for a copy of their report DCC told me they didnt have one as they didnt ask for one to be done. Unbelievable