A NEW town warden could double up as a parking warden if Sleaford Town Council get their way.
With plans to decriminalise parking enforcement, the council is looking at ways to work with the police on illegal parking.
The matter was raised by Coun Mark Graves, chairman of the council’s strategy committee.
He said they were told 18 month
s ago that powers of enforcement in relation to illegal parking was to be passed down to local authorities, now he has been told it may yet take another 18 months.
He suggested there could be some interim arrangements made with the police where the council’s new warden could gather evidence towards punishing motorists parking illegally. Any fines would still go back to the police.
Mr Graves said: “We would then be able to enforce the regulations in town and where there are parking issues we can go to the traffic authority and ask them for yellow lines to be put down and they don’t have to say, ‘Why bother?’
“Unless we do something about it the traffic situation in the town will not change.”
Police have recently been sending out traffic wardens on random days to catch motorists parking on yellow lines and in loading bays.
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