Parking fines to be reintroduced in Northern Ireland

Parking fines to be reintroduced in Northern Ireland

Parking and bus lane fines are to be reintroduced from Monday 29th June.

Enforcement was put on hold on March 23rd when the country went into lockdown. Enforcement teams will be back on the streets from today (March 22nd) and will have the power to issue warnings to those in violation of the rules.

Commenting on the Infrastructure Minister’s decision to resume parking and bus lane enforcement on 29th June, Retail NI Chief Executive Glyn Roberts said:

“While we accept that parking and enforcement needed to return at some point, what doesn’t need to return is the overzealous approach of the parking enforcement officers in handing out excessive numbers of penalty charge notices.

“Our town and city centres are at a very delicate early stage of recovery and the last thing they need is traffic wardens going over the top with tickets for shoppers who use their cars. The only winners from this are the large out-of-town supermarkets, which have free car parking and no traffic attendants.

“Retail NI wants to see a new start with sensible and fair enforcement of car parking and bus lanes and an end to the excessive strategy we saw before the pandemic.”

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