Professional Documents
Culture Documents
upon
Hull
City
Council
2009
Annual
Including statistical information for the financial years Parking
2007 / 2008 and 2008 / 2009
Enforcement
Report
Contents
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Section 1 - General
Anyone who drives in Hull knows of the problems caused by one irresponsible
motorist parking in the wrong place. The majority of motorists use the city’s car
parks and parking spaces correctly, but a vehicle parked incorrectly on a street or
even a bus lane can not only be dangerous but cause delays, queuing and
inconvenience for other road users. Parking in the city needs to be managed to
make sure Hull keeps on the move.
That is why Hull City Council took over the enforcement of parking regulations on
10th July, 2006.
This means no difference for those who park responsibly but has resulted in a
more effective action on inappropriate parking.
The aim of these pages is to explain how the arrangements for parking
enforcement work and how it benefits everyone.
What’s happening?
Hull Council has created what is known as a Special Parking Area in Hull. This
means taking over enforcement responsibility from the county’s Police Force and
its Traffic Wardens throughout the city. This has the support of Humberside
Police.
Both are uniformed personnel patrolling on the streets. Traffic Wardens could
enforce parking offences and some moving traffic offences, such as driving the
wrong way in a one-way street, as well as being able to direct traffic. Civil
Enforcement Officers are only able to enforce contraventions of the parking
regulations.
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Why Civil Parking Enforcement?
CPE will allow us to match enforcement to our wider transport strategy for Hull.
This will mean:
• less blocking of bus lanes and major traffic routes by incorrectly parked
vehicles
• better traffic management and increased demand for Park and Ride
It will:
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Section 2 – The Background Information
• reduce congestion
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unloading, improve conditions in resident parking areas and reduce abuse of
blue badge holders parking bays.
Civil Enforcement Officers issue regulation 9 penalty charge notices and in the
very near future regulation 10 penalty charge notices, (these are notices served
via the post when a motorist drives away before the civil enforcement officer is
able to attach a notice to the vehicle) under the direction of the authorities
Parking Management Team who in turn act as arbiters in regards to the issue
and appeal of all PCN’s issued.
Under the CPE legislation Hull designated the entirety of the city within its
boundary as a Special Parking Area (SPA) due to the geography of the city and
nature of the area being entirely urbane. As a result the SPA covers 2987
streets, eight off street car parks, three multi storey car parks and fifteen
Controlled Parking Zones.
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How are the teams made up?
In order to adequately undertake the CPE role and minimise the potential impact
inappropriate parking has on the city’s highway network, on and off street
enforcement of contravention of parking regulations are undertaken by a private
contractor (currently Vinci Park Services UK Ltd) who in turn are managed by the
authorities Parking Enforcement Department.
The Parking officers form part of the Highway Network Management team that
have overall responsibility for TMA, traffic signals, lines, signs ,TROs, highway
maintenance, and control of third party works on network and as such is ideally
placed in order to adequately control all issues both internal to the authority and
external that affects Civil Parking Enforcement function.
• Contract manager
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• 2 Senior Supervisors
• 4 supervisors
• 19 Civil Enforcement Officers (6 of which can be mobile through the use of
motorbikes)
The contractor currently operates 3 shifts per day, and routinely patrols from
07:00 hrs to 22:00 hrs, however 24hour enforcement is possible when required
under the current contract in order to adequately manage special events such as
Hull Fair, Christmas lights, fireworks and various sporting events etc.
Parking outside our 72 Primary schools are enforced on a regular basis through
the use of the mobile CEO’s ,
Blue badge enforcement (in conjunction with Humberside police and disabled
focus groups) is also undertaken on a regular basis.
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Section 3 – Getting a Penalty Charge Notice
• obstruction
and will take action against any vehicle where security or other traffic policing
issues are involved.
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address shown on the penalty charge notice. You can also pay in person, by
telephone or online. Full details are on the rear of the penalty charge notice.
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Section 4 – What will CPE do?
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inappropriate parking. Enforcement levels will be reviewed and adjusted
periodically.
How will this affect the control of parking near football grounds
on match days?
All normal parking restrictions apply during football matches and will be enforced
by the Civil Enforcement Officers. Any special parking arrangements for football
matches will continue to be managed and enforced by the police.
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The introduction of regulation 86 of TMA 2004 part 6 ‘dropped kerbs’ which the
authority is introducing on a phased approach starting with pedestrian crossings
will also help to reduce motorists inconsiderate parking hindering pedestrians.
As the authority have now been operating under DPE / CPE for three years and
have seen an increase in compliance along with the introduction of additional
restrictions and controlled parking measures it is planned to undertake an overall
review of the service currently provided, with particular emphasis being placed on
Frequency of Patrols, charging levels, Suitability of on street restrictions and
permit provision in CPZs and their management.
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Section 5 – Reporting Problems
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Enforcement Officers have responsibility for issuing Penalty Charge Notices
(parking tickets) to people who ignore parking restrictions and park
inappropriately. Parking restrictions will not change as a result of CPE, although
it is expected that they will be more effectively enforced.
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Section 6 – Statistical Information
2007/08 2008/09
Number of streets patrolled 206365 194595
Total hours foot patrolling 37447 38360
69 65
Each street was patrolled on average per year times times
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2007/08 2008/09
Total number of PCNs issued 29415 24722
Made up as follows
On Street Higher (CPE £70) 113 8547
On Street Lower (CPE £50) 38 14546
Off Street Higher (CPE £70) 1 41
Off Street Lower (CPE £50) 5 1588
On Street (DPE £60) 26771 N/A
Off Street (DPE £60) 2487 N/A
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Payments (No. of PCNs Paid) 2007/08 2008/09
Paid at the discounted rate (Full Charge less 50%) 18647 12966
Paid at the full charge 3415 2484
Paid after the issue of a Charge Certificate (Full Charge + 50%) 949 610
Paid after the serving of a warrant Full Charge + 50% + £5 929 575
78%
78%
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Appeals handled by the Council 2007/08 2008/09
Appeals received in total 5492 4446
Made up as follows
Challenge (informal) 4812 3876
Representation (formal) 680 570
Challenges accepted 1682 2344
Challenges rejected 3130 1532
Representations accepted 195 243
Representations rejected 485 327
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Local Authority Civil Parking Enforcement 2009 –
Returns to the Department for Transport
Position as at 01 October 2009
Section 1
Penalty Charge Notices ISSUED
For the period 1st April 2008 - 31st March
For the period 1st April 2007 - 31st March 2008 2009
On-street Off-street Total On-street Off-street Total
1c Total number of PCNs issued? 26874 2503 29377 23079 1629 24708
1e
Number of PCNs paid in full at non-discount rates? 4567 325 4892 2755 165 2920
1f Total number of PCNs paid? 20978 1976 22954 14568 1134 15702
1g Total number of PCNs unpaid? 47852 4479 52331 37647 2763 40410
1h
How many applications were made to register road
traffic debts at the Traffic Enforcement Centre? 3638 155 3793 2675 89 2764
Local Authority Civil Parking Enforcement 2009
Position as at 01 October 2009
Section 2
Penalty Charge Notices CANCELLED
For the period 1st April 2007 - 31st March For the period 1st April 2008 - 31st March
2008 2009
On-
street Off-street Total On-street Off-street Total
2b
How many PCNs issued using evidence from
approved devices were the subject of challenges for
statutory and other reasons (pre and post-NTO)? 0 0 0 0 0 0
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Section 3
Immobilisation/removal of vehicles before action following a warrant of execution
For the period 1st April 2007 - 31st For the period 1st April 2008 - 31st
March 2008 March 2009
On- Off- On- Off-
street street Total street street Total
Greyed out boxes are automatic totals and respondents are not able to edit these.
Section 7 – Financial Information
This section details the total income and expenditure on the parking account and includes the
corporate costs associated with the provision of the Parking Service
In 2008/09 the authority recorded a surplus income which has in turn funded the following
CPE / Parking / Transportation related services.
Stoneferry Rd / Leads Rd
roundabout improvement works £108,263.00
Great Union St c'way plane &
resurface £149,726.00
Tilbury Rd c'way plane & resurface £83,870.00
Oak Rd c'way plane & resurface £49,015.00
Surface Dressing (Contribution) £234,165.00
Total £1,256,922.00
Balance £50,511.66
City Wide TRO Review planned for 2009 /10 including introduction of Parkmap TRO
management system (Budget Est 50K)
The planned city wide TRO review includes for the establishment of an IT map based system
which will allow for central management of all TRO’s and potential for web access to the data
for both the public, external bodies and adjudicators
2008/09
* Civil Parking Enforcement includes On Street Parking Charges and Fines Civil Car Parks Reconiliation Full Year Full Year
Cost Full Year Full Year Parking General Variance Variance
Centre Narrative Sub Sub Narrative Budget Actual Enforcement * (P - O) %
T4500 Car Parks - General Non-Allocable 0001 Pay - Basic 364,990 339,579.63 84,840.55 254,739.08 339,579.63 -25,410 -6.96%
T4500 Car Parks - General Non-Allocable 0002 Pay - Overtime 62,770 98,595.02 749.85 97,845.17 98,595.02 35,825 57.07%
T4500 Car Parks - General Non-Allocable 0008 Pay - Employers National Insurance 34,660 30,606.90 3,306.67 27,300.23 30,606.90 -4,053 -11.69%
T4500 Car Parks - General Non-Allocable 0009 Pay - Employers Superannuation 105,730 146,979.18 11,942.47 135,036.71 146,979.18 41,249 39.01%
T4500 Car Parks - General Non-Allocable 0070 Agency Staff 0 119,421.40 119,421.40 0.00 119,421.40 119,421 ****
T4500 Car Parks - General Non-Allocable 0076 Severance Payments 0 52,968.38 0.00 52,968.38 52,968.38 52,968 ****
T4500 Car Parks - General Non-Allocable 0093 Added Years Superannuation Costs 4,060 3,236.79 0.00 3,236.79 3,236.79 -823 -20.28%
T4500 Car Parks - General Non-Allocable 0130 Employee Related Pay Schemes 13,080 3,416.63 207.80 3,208.83 3,416.63 -9,663 -73.88%
T4500 Car Parks - General Non-Allocable 0350 Employee Related Insurance 3,200 174.43 0.00 174.43 174.43 -3,026 -94.55%
T4500 Car Parks - General Non-Allocable 0972 Repairs, Alterations & Maintenance of Buildings 97,520 36,912.45 20,595.19 16,317.26 36,912.45 -60,608 -62.15%
T4500 Car Parks - General Non-Allocable 1000 Electricity 41,920 62,156.48 0.00 62,156.48 62,156.48 20,236 48.27%
T4500 Car Parks - General Non-Allocable 1160 National Non Domestic Rates & Council Tax 254,170 121,649.08 0.00 121,649.08 121,649.08 -132,521 -52.14%
T4500 Car Parks - General Non-Allocable 1180 Business Improvement District Levy 0 2,658.28 0.00 2,658.28 2,658.28 2,658 ****
T4500 Car Parks - General Non-Allocable 1200 Water Services 2,130 2,589.60 0.00 2,589.60 2,589.60 460 21.58%
T4500 Car Parks - General Non-Allocable 1352 Alarms, Systems & Security 36,900 16,256.04 0.00 16,256.04 16,256.04 -20,644 -55.95%
T4500 Car Parks - General Non-Allocable 1390 Contract Cleaning & Refuse Services 3,580 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 -3,580 -100.00%
T4500 Car Parks - General Non-Allocable 1475 Premises Insurance 8,300 5,173.22 0.00 5,173.22 5,173.22 -3,127 -37.67%
T4500 Car Parks - General Non-Allocable 1480 Contributions to Premises Related Provisions 0 4,590.52 0.00 4,590.52 4,590.52 4,591 ****
T4500 Car Parks - General Non-Allocable 1481 Grounds Maintenance Costs 15,870 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 -15,870 -100.00%
T4500 Car Parks - General Non-Allocable 2600 Vehicle Allowances 2,900 1,371.91 555.16 816.75 1,371.91 -1,528 -52.69%
T4500 Car Parks - General Non-Allocable 2750 Equipment & Furniture 0 92,210.53 62,928.07 29,282.46 92,210.53 92,211 ****
T4500 Car Parks - General Non-Allocable 3000 Materials & Consumables -370 215.01 0.00 215.01 215.01 585 -158.11%
T4500 Car Parks - General Non-Allocable 3225 Books, Publications & Newspapers 0 2,764.97 1,125.00 1,639.97 2,764.97 2,765 ****
T4500 Car Parks - General Non-Allocable 3900 Clothes, Uniforms & Laundry 5,000 398.31 0.00 398.31 398.31 -4,602 -92.03%
T4500 Car Parks - General Non-Allocable 4000 Stationery 0 1,269.19 925.00 344.19 1,269.19 1,269 ****
T4500 Car Parks - General Non-Allocable 4020 Printing & Photocopying 6,260 1,557.85 0.00 1,557.85 1,557.85 -4,702 -75.11%
T4500 Car Parks - General Non-Allocable 4150 Medical Fees 100 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 -100 -100.00%
T4500 Car Parks - General Non-Allocable 4153 Professional/Consultants Fees 45,770 78,543.16 71,071.97 7,471.19 78,543.16 32,773 71.60%
T4500 Car Parks - General Non-Allocable 4331 Parking Wardens 665,870 533,154.88 533,154.88 0.00 533,154.88 -132,715 -19.93%
T4500 Car Parks - General Non-Allocable 4460 Postal Charges 0 1,355.35 1,355.35 0.00 1,355.35 1,355 ****
T4500 Car Parks - General Non-Allocable 4662 Other Communication Equipment 2,340 2,834.01 0.00 2,834.01 2,834.01 494 21.11%
T4500 Car Parks - General Non-Allocable 4708 Computer Software & Consumables 0 4,516.52 3,620.00 896.52 4,516.52 4,517 ****
T4500 Car Parks - General Non-Allocable 4810 Officer Subsistence Payment 0 484.67 0.00 484.67 484.67 485 ****
T4500 Car Parks - General Non-Allocable 5000 Miscellaneous Insurance 810 282.20 0.00 282.20 282.20 -528 -65.16%
T4500 Car Parks - General Non-Allocable 5020 Advertising & Publicity (NOT RECRUITMENT) 3,360 679.31 0.00 679.31 679.31 -2,681 -79.78%
T4500 Car Parks - General Non-Allocable 5250 Internal Expenditure 48,000 64,840.44 37,157.82 27,682.62 64,840.44 16,840 35.08%
T4500 Car Parks - General Non-Allocable 5270 Contributions to Supplies & Service Related Provisions 0 12,471.67 0.00 12,471.67 12,471.67 12,472 ****
T4500 Car Parks - General Non-Allocable 7101 Sales of Products & Materials 0 -2.98 0.00 -2.98 -2.98 -3 ****
T4500 Car Parks - General Non-Allocable 7270 Fees & Charges for Services -895,070 -895,942.36 -893,060.00 -2,882.36 -895,942.36 -872 0.10%
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T4500 Car Parks - General Non-Allocable 7660 Parking Income -2,833,020 1,249,746.72 0.00 -1,249,746.72 -1,249,746.72 1,583,273 -55.89%
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T4500 Car Parks - General Non-Allocable 7660 Parking Income 0 1,421,496.86 -1,421,496.86 0.00 -1,421,496.86 -1,421,497 ****
T4500 Car Parks - General Non-Allocable 7662 Parking Passes -843,880 -326,947.80 0.00 -326,947.80 -326,947.80 516,932 -61.26%
T4500 Car Parks - General Non-Allocable 8278 Commercial Rents 0 -2,331.93 0.00 -2,331.93 -2,331.93 -2,332 ****
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T4500 Car Parks - General Non-Allocable Total -2,743,050 2,050,554.64 -1,361,599.68 -688,954.96 -2,050,555 692,495 -25.25%
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T4500 Car Parks - General Non-Allocable Total 1,796,118.27 -1,307,433.66 -488,684.61 -1,796,118.27