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Express & Star 8 Feb 11
The owner of an eyesore property in Weston Street, Fullbrook, who failed to clean up the site in Walsall has been hit with a bill of more than £2,000.
Andrew Morgan, picture right, was ordered to tidy up the semi-detached house almost four years ago but instead allowed it to fall into further ruin…
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Mark Cowan B'ham Mail 2 Nov 10
Thousands of criminals are having court fines deducted straight from their benefits or wages in a crackdown on dodgers.
And other people trying to avoid paying up will be targeted in a month-long campaign launched across the West Midlands by HM Courts Service.
Operation Crack Down will see Court Enforcement Officers and local police in the Midlands engaging in a series of blitzes on offenders’ homes to chase up repayments…
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Matt Lloyd B'ham Mail 19 Aug 10
Figures from Her Majesty’s Court Service show that £44.6 million is currently outstanding in the region.
They show while £21,856,536 in fines were dished out in 2009/10, more than double that amount is actually outstanding because of unpaid penalties hanging over from previous years…
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Edward Chadwick B'ham Mail 9 Jul 10
Speeding drivers paid an eye-watering £2,600,000 in fines across the West Midlands last year – but a drivers’ body say cameras aren’t making the roads any safer.
Figures released by the Drivers’ Alliance reveal that motorists caught breaking speed limits shelled out £2,065,620 in fixed penalty fines and a further £529,135 in the courts.
The sum has fallen from a combined £2,944,883 in 2008 but the pressure group says the million of pounds being paid out every year have not had an impact on the number of crashes…
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Express & Star 1 Mar 10
More than half a million pounds has been raised from parking fines in Walsall since the council took over the role from police. Walsall Council netted a total of £553,000 in 10 months from motorists parking illegally amid accusations that motorists are being treated like cash cows whilst town-centre trade is suffering…
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Adam Lumley The YamYam 25 Nov 09
Walsall Council have raked in a whopping £95,000 in off-street parking fines, a rise of £35,000 on the previous year, one of the largest increases in the region.
The figure, released by the Tax Payers Alliance covers a 12 month period up to April 2009 and does not include the income raised since the council took over control of on-street parking enforcement. In the 6 months since then, 14,500 tickets have been slapped on motorists, triple the numbers issued by police in an entire year. The fines from these tickets raised a further £720,000.
But in the wider West Midlands, parking fine revenue is 16% down with Sandwell reporting a drop of £70,000 and Wolverhampton £37,000.
Worried Walsall traders feel that the parking blitz is strangling town centre businesses and recent reports of war veterans, buses and even other traffic wardens being issued with tickets will simply drive shoppers away.
Walsall cabinet member for transport, Tom Ansell said: “All that we want is for people to comply with the regulations.”
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The YamYam 6 Oct 09
In the 6 months since Walsall Council took over parking enforcement, the number of tickets issued by wardens has tripled the number handed out by police in an entire year.
14,500 tickets have been issued by the 25 council wardens since April and despite nearly a 1000 being cancelled, the blitz has generated £720,000 in revenue from the £50 and £70 fines.
Local businesses have reacted angrily to the clamp down. Peter Wlikes, who has run the Tobias barbers shop on Bridge Street for 20 years says that the crack-down means the end for his business.
“I can only blame the latest ploy by Walsall Council in introducing wardens on what was already a worsening situation. Those civil enforcement bullies have made Walsall a town to detest. This was the final straw on top of all the disruption from the ring road work.” Mr Wilkes added that his business would close this month.
Councillor Tom Ansell, cabinet portfolio holder for transport is quoted as saying that the council did not expect to win any “popularity contests” as a result of the new parking regime.
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John Marsden B'ham Post 1 Oct 09
Half of all on-the-spot fines issued to West Midland yobs are going unpaid. The fines were brought in to beat bureaucracy and slash the time and expense it took to deal with minor crimes in court but offenders now end up in court for non-payment and not for the initial offence committed…