Herefordshire Council is urging people in the county to give their views on a new strategy that will guide car parking over the next decade and a half – including the idea of cameras to catch errant parkers.
Running until June 3, the consultation seeks the views of residents, businesses, visitors and commuters into the county on town-centre parking, school safety, enforcement, technology, residents’ parking and business support.
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With almost everyone in Herefordshire affected in some way by how parking operates, the council says it wants people to share their real-life experiences to help shape its future decisions.
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It hopes to use the strategy to introduce “positive parking” through changing perceptions, improving drivers’ experiences, and ensuring parking supports economic, social, and environmental goals.
The council’s Cabinet member for roads Coun Barry Durkin said: “Parking is something people experience every day, and we want to understand what works well and what could be improved.
“This strategy is about creating safer, fairer and more accessible parking across Herefordshire, and we want to hear from as many different voices as possible before we make final decisions.”
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Among the proposals it seeks views on are camera-based enforcement, including automatic number plate recognition, which it says “can be used to monitor and enforce parking and traffic restrictions in specific locations where safety, access or compliance is a concern”.
The council “would like to understand if people feel camera enforcement would be appropriate to support safety, accessibility and fairness”, the survey says.
But the survey does not mention the proposal in the draft strategy to regularly increase parking charges in line with inflation, or its plan to bring in a park-and-ride scheme between the city’s planned new Southern Link Road, also known as Phase 1 of the bypass, and the city centre.
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