{"id":364335,"date":"2026-01-11T11:35:06","date_gmt":"2026-01-11T11:35:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/364335\/"},"modified":"2026-01-11T11:35:06","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T11:35:06","slug":"evs-for-wiltshire-parking-enforcement-if-price-increase-approved","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/364335\/","title":{"rendered":"EVs for Wiltshire parking enforcement if price increase approved"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A council says it may be able to provide its parking enforcement with a fleet of electric vehicles (EVs) if plans to hike parking charges are adopted.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Motorists in Wiltshire will face several parking changes if Wiltshire Council&#8217;s Environment Select Committee approves the plans on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Wiltshire Council Parking Plan 2026 to 2030 proposes a 20% increase in parking charges, plus a nearest 10p charge, extending parking hours to 07:00-19:00, and moving Sunday parking charges in line with weekend rates.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">In a report, officers accepted introducing parking charges presented &#8220;several risks for the council&#8221;, mostly regarding negative impacts on local businesses and high streets.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A council says it may be able to provide its parking enforcement with a fleet of electric vehicles&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":364336,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":["post-364335","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/364335","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=364335"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/364335\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/364336"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=364335"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=364335"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=364335"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}