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Date Posted: 05:33:09 03/30/04 Tue
Author: local resident Jordanstown
Subject: Re: Car Parking Charges
In reply to: Skint 's message, "Car Parking Charges" on 14:35:20 03/25/04 Thu

Drivers given 300 parking tickets at UU


By Jonathan McCambridge, Crime Correspondent
jmccambridge@belfasttelegraph.co.uk

26 March 2004
http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/story.jsp?story=505231

POLICE and traffic wardens have handed out more than 300 parking tickets outside the University of Ulster in Jordanstown since the introduction of a controversial car clamping scheme at the campus, it emerged today.

The university introduced the scheme for all their campuses last year to try and prevent students and staff parking in non- designated areas within their grounds.

Since then concerns have risen over the number of vehicles which park in residential areas around the Jordanstown campus, leading to access difficulties and the amount of police resources which have been spent managing the problem.

Staff and students recently staged a one day 'park off' outside the campus in protest at plans to introduce parking fees.

South Antrim MP David Burnside submitted a written parliamentary question to Minister Jane Kennedy asking what personnel and financial resources had been required to deal with the university's decision to introduce car clamping.

She responded: "The University of Ulster, which is an autonomous institution responsible for its own policies and practices introduced vehicle clamping due to the lack of ordered parking, which involved, for example, parking in spaces reserved for the disabled, on verges, at corners and other areas marked by double yellow lines, and in ways which dangerously restricted access to entrances and exits.

"The new arrangements have been put in place to prevent such inconvenience and danger to car park users and have been very successful.

"The university is deeply conscious of the importance of good relations with local residents and has sought the co-operation of both staff and students in not parking in the streets surrounding the university campuses.

"At Jordanstown, it has been necessary for the police, on a number of occasions, to deploy traffic wardens adjacent to the complex.

"They have issued in the region of 315 fixed penalty tickets since September 2003."

Ulster Unionist MLA Ken Robinson said: "Over 300 fines have been issued because of the current clamping policy.

"This is hardly a satisfactory outcome for anyone and merely highlights a situation brought about by the lack of consultation with local interests."

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