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Tenner a day fee for digging up the roads
Plan to hit utilities in the pocket
UTILITY companies digging up Camden’s roads, often causing traffic delays and disturbance, have been told they will have to cough up for the inconvenience they cause.
The Town Hall is to get tough on the diggers and demand more cash from them than ever before.
Officials hope the move will encourage companies to complete the work more speedily, cutting down on irritating delays.
Companies will be ordered to fork out £10 a day for every parking bay that is suspended due to their work. The slower they work, the more they will pay.
In the past, companies have only paid a flat £50 administrative fee and have had no pressure to get jobs done swiftly.
Under the new scheme, a timer will be set running with bills escalating for every day that a company leaves a road dug up.
The changes will come into effect in April when a patrol unit will start touring the borough checking on suspended roads. Meanwhile, residents fed up with parking bay suspensions coming into effect without them being notified have been promised a better service. The pledge from environment chief Councillor Mike Greene follows reports of cars being removed while owners have been on holiday – unaware of an upcoming parking suspension.
Cllr Greene said: “We want to improve our parking system in Camden and make it fairer and clearer for everyone who uses the borough’s busy roads.
Whilst parking bays have to be suspended from time to time and drivers must always check the signs, we are bringing in new ways of managing this.
This will help minimise the frustrations experienced by residents and drivers and make it less likely that they will get a ticket for parking in a suspended bay.”
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