Today the High Court has decided ina a case broguht by Brent residents to block the raising of parking permit costs from £40 to £100 a year – http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-23406427

Justice Lang rules that Barnet Council acted unalwfully to use parking permits to generate more money for other purposes such as road maintenace. Barnet Council plans to appeal. But I get the sense that they’ll fail. If they win an appeal it owuld mean paring permits could be used for revenue raising puproses which would go beyond the 1984 act allowing parking permits to be charged for.

This potentially has a huge impact on Southwark which only 18months ago increase fees from £99.30 to £125.

It seems clear that parking permit charges can only cover the costs of providing them. Which with online applciations etc must be very much lower than the fees charged.