NORTH KENT: Primary schools toughen up on parking with £70 fines (From News Shopper)

Excellent! Should stop the mayhem of parent-parking!

Now all we need is an article on the wardens who ticket needlessly and the councils who urge them to do so to boost the bonus coffers!

Dover Road School and The Bronte School are big offenders, target them first...pretty please.

Please note it says " could be handed a £70 fine ". Which means they're not goig to do it. it's just a PR stunt.

I live in Barrington Road and we have parking wardens regularly come to check that parents are not parking on the yellow lines outside the school. Only, when they arrive they park in the most prominent place and then put up signs warning parents that they are there! Needless to say I dont think they catch many (if any) people parking on the zig-zags on those days! However, we also have parking bays in the road which can only be used during the hours of 10am and 12pm if you have a parking permit, but of course if you are a minute over 10am you get a fine of £50 or so - without warning. I question which is more dangerous and deserves a fine - parking on the yellow zig-zags outside a school, thus endangering children, or parking in a bay for an extra minute or two in a road that at that time of day is pretty much empty. Clearly, its because its much easier to sneakily stick a fine on a car when the owner is not in sight and make a quick get away in a parking enforcement car than to directly confront a parent who is illegally parked.

Ok easy answer put tyre spikes in the road that will stop them parking there.