{"id":692070,"date":"2026-01-12T23:44:17","date_gmt":"2026-01-12T23:44:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/692070\/"},"modified":"2026-01-12T23:44:17","modified_gmt":"2026-01-12T23:44:17","slug":"new-parking-charges-to-be-introduced-across-six-calderdale-towns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/692070\/","title":{"rendered":"New parking charges to be introduced across six Calderdale towns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Drivers will soon have to pay to park in areas that are currently free in six Calderdale towns.<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A number of changes to parking rules will be implemented early this year across Brighouse, Elland, Halifax, Hebden Bridge, Sowerby Bridge and Todmorden. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Calderdale Council said the move would help free up spaces in busy areas and make parking more consistent. Plans include new charges on streets and in car parks, longer charging hours in busy towns, and shorter hours in quieter ones.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A council spokesperson said: &#8220;Charging for parking helps us manage spaces and any surplus will fund car park repairs and highways maintenance.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Drivers will soon have to pay to park in areas that are currently free in six Calderdale towns.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":692071,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[51,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-692070","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-business","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-uk","10":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115884789832354845","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/692070","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=692070"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/692070\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/692071"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=692070"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=692070"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=692070"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}