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In the United Kingdom, a fixed penalty notice (FPN) is a notice giving an individual the opportunity to be made immune from prosecution for an alleged criminal offence in exchange for a fee. [1] Fixed penalty notices were introduced in Britain in the 1980s to deal with minor parking offences. Originally used by police and traffic wardens, their ...
In 2005/6 the City of Westminster received GBP 65.4 million in parking revenue for on-street parking. [5] From one road in London, £3.2 million was raised in the year 2005-06. [2] Some councils have used, attempted to use or been accused of attempting to use parking enforcement as a source of revenue. [6]
A penalty fare, standard fare, or fixed penalty notice is a special, usually higher, fare charged because a passenger using public transport did not comply with the normal ticket purchasing rules. It should not be confused with an unpaid fares notice. Penalty fares are incurred when a ticket or a rail pass cannot be produced on request.
The London Government Act 1963 established 32 London borough councils. [19] It also established the Greater London Council, covering the whole of Greater London, [20] but this was later abolished by the Local Government Act 1985. [21] Greater London also includes the sui generis City of London Corporation. [7]
The Borough of Tunbridge Wells is a local government district with borough status in Kent, England. It takes its name from its main town, Royal Tunbridge Wells . The borough also contains the towns of Paddock Wood and Southborough , along with numerous villages and surrounding rural areas.
In March 2023, he put forward a motion for a new permanent statue of the late Queen Elizabeth ll to be placed in a London location. The motion was passed by the London Assembly. [8] In May 2023, he became Chair of the London Assembly's Transport Committee. [9] In June 2023, he announced his plans to step down at the next Assembly election. [10]
The TN postcode area, also known as the Tonbridge postcode area, [2] is a group of 40 postcode districts in England, within 24 post towns.These cover south and west Kent (including Tonbridge, Royal Tunbridge Wells, Ashford, Sevenoaks, Westerham, Cranbrook, Edenbridge, New Romney, Romney Marsh and Tenterden) and northern and eastern East Sussex (including Hastings, Battle, Bexhill-on-Sea ...
Southborough is a town and civil parish in the borough of Tunbridge Wells in Kent, England. It lies immediately to the north of the town of Tunbridge Wells and includes the district of High Brooms, with the A26 road passing through it. According to the 2001 census it had a population of 11,124.