World’s Most Beautiful Village Rakes in £900 a Week in Cotswolds Parking Fines
Gloucestershire County Council plans 24 pay-and-display spaces and a £175,000 package after 651 parking fines last year.
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The parking agents applied tens of thousands of pounds of fines last year as part of an extensive campaign to combat irregular parking in the village known as "the most beautiful in the world," and local authorities are now taking an additional step towards supporting efforts, reports The Independent. Bibury, known as ...
UK’s ‘most beautiful village’ pulls in £900 a week in parking fines after crackdown
The surge in number of parking tickets issued in Bibury has been welcomed by the parish council chairman who says villagers face a ‘nightmare’ over the number of tourists
The status of "the most beautiful village in the world" comes to the fore not only with consistent revenues from tourism, but also with major traffic problems. A world-famous community has been forced to take drastic measures to combat the road chaos created by thousands of visitors who leave their cars at random. [...]
The parking control agencies applied fines of up to £45.000 (€52.491) last year as part of an extensive sanctions campaign in Bibury village, designated as "the most beautiful village in the world."
Bibury, the village to which Forbes magazine awarded the title of "the most beautiful in the world", collected an impressive sum last year only from the fines applied to tourists who have illegally parked.
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