{"id":694916,"date":"2026-01-14T07:42:11","date_gmt":"2026-01-14T07:42:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/694916\/"},"modified":"2026-01-14T07:42:11","modified_gmt":"2026-01-14T07:42:11","slug":"call-for-parking-fees-at-leeds-parks-to-end-after-chaos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/694916\/","title":{"rendered":"Call for parking fees at Leeds parks to end after &#8216;chaos&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Drivers leaving their vehicles on residential streets to avoid new parking charges are causing &#8220;chaos&#8221;, a councillor has said.<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Leeds City Council introduced fees to use the car parks at its public parks, including Otley Chevin, Temple Newsam, Middleton Park, Golden Acre Park and Roundhay Park, last year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Conservative group on the council has said it opposes the policy and believe it could be putting off visitors to beauty spots.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Its leader Alan Lamb said: &#8220;Every pound that&#8217;s going into the parking machines is a pound not going into local independent businesses.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Drivers leaving their vehicles on residential streets to avoid new parking charges are causing &#8220;chaos&#8221;, a councillor has&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":694917,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8814],"tags":[748,393,4884,1860,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-694916","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-leeds","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-england","10":"tag-great-britain","11":"tag-leeds","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115892331761770660","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/694916","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=694916"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/694916\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/694917"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=694916"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=694916"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=694916"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}