{"id":341830,"date":"2025-08-13T18:33:11","date_gmt":"2025-08-13T18:33:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/341830\/"},"modified":"2025-08-13T18:33:11","modified_gmt":"2025-08-13T18:33:11","slug":"walsall-school-traffic-camera-earns-council-4k-in-fines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/341830\/","title":{"rendered":"Walsall school traffic camera earns council \u00a34k in fines"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Of the 119 fines were issued by APCOA Parking Ltd, just seven were quashed following appeal.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The figures were provided to the Local Democracy Reporting Service in a Freedom of Information request.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;The enforcement camera was installed to improve compliance with the clear restrictions installed directly outside the school entrance to maintain safety for our school children,&#8221; a council spokesperson said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Despite the restriction being in place for many years, motorists were regularly parking in the restricted area when they perceived the chance of enforcement to be low.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Since camera enforcement has been introduced, compliance with the restriction has improved and this is expected to continue improving.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Of the 119 fines were issued by APCOA Parking Ltd, just seven were quashed following appeal. The figures&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":341831,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7820],"tags":[855,748,393,4884,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-341830","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-birmingham","8":"tag-birmingham","9":"tag-britain","10":"tag-england","11":"tag-great-britain","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115022897141914163","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341830","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=341830"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341830\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/341831"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=341830"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=341830"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=341830"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}