Councils across England could be forced to cut parking charges following a landmark High Court judgement. It ruled it illegal for Barnet council to increase the cost of residents and visitor permits as a way of boosting revenue and subsidising its other services.
Residents argued that 10 per cent of locals who lived in controlled parking zones, were effectively subsidising transport across the whole borough and that rather than being part of a traffic management plan, the charges were being increased in order to pay for things such as fare concessions and other transport costs.
