Illegal Parked Foreign Car parked in Liverpool, Merseyside, UK
Foreign drivers are costing councils in England and Wales millions of pounds in unpaid parking fines, according to the Local Government Association (LGA). Current British law allows European vehicles to be driven on UK roads for six months before they have to register with the DVLA, meaning that during this time period the majority of parking offences made by these drivers are not recorded. This means that thousands of non-UK drivers are able to go unpunished for parking offences at a cost of tens of thousands of pounds each month to local councils. According to data released by the LGA, councils across England and Wales are now counting the cost of this missing revenue. In the past five years, Oxfordshire, Southampton and Portsmouth councils have collectively been forced to rip up more than 10,000 tickets issued to foreign-registered vehicles, at a total cost of more than £500,000. In Brighton, two per cent of all parking offences are committed by non-UK registered vehicles, costing the council around £2,000 a month. Leicester is another city that has had to write off thousands of pounds in parking fines, losing out on £20,000 in the last year alone. It is believed that over three million foreign cars enter the UK each year, with the majority of these vehicles coming from mainland Europe.
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Location: Liverpool, Merseyside, UK
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