Overview

• Council leader Millie Earl officially withdrew support on June 29 after residents lodged overwhelming objections during a public consultation.
• The draft plan would have required homeowners to pay £70 per vehicle for street parking within 0.6 miles of Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole seafronts.
• The proposal was introduced after officials issued over 1,300 fines in a single weekend to address ‘wild west’ tourist parking on pavements, verges and roundabouts.
• Millie Earl has condemned the current £35 maximum fine as insufficient and has written to ministers seeking an increase in national parking penalty caps.
• Councillors are now exploring alternative enforcement strategies and pressing for central government reforms to provide stronger deterrents against illegal parking.