Navigation
Site categories
- Home
-
- Environment and planning
-
- Abandoned vehicles
- Animal welfare
- Archaeology
- Building control
- Commercial waste and recycling
- Conservation
- Countryside
- Deaths, funerals and cremations
- Emergencies
- Environmental health
- Grants
- Infectious diseases
- Land and premises
- Licences and street trading
- Marine and waterway services
- Parking
- Parks and open spaces
- Planning
- Pollution
- Private housing
- Recycling, rubbish and waste
- Regeneration
- Road markings and signage
- Roads, highways and pavements
-
- Car parks - council
- Car parks - private
- Cycle lanes and routes
- Disabled people - parking bays
- Disabled people - parking permits - blue badge
- Gypsy and traveller sites
- Licence - street cafe
- Licence - street trading
- Nuisance vehicles
- Street furniture - provision and maintenance
- Street parking - clamping and removal
- Street parking - enforcement and fines
- Street parking - permits
- Street parking - zones
- Street trading - illegal
- Taxi rank provision
- Street care and cleaning
- Sustainability
- Town centre management
- Urban design
Watford Borough Council
Street parking - enforcement and fines
As well as normal daytime patrols, enforcement also takes place at night and on Sundays (where restrictions apply).
There is also a Match Day Parking Scheme (see page on 'Match day parking') that comes into effect on first team match days of Watford Football Club or the Saracens Rugby Club during which enforcement patrols take place.
As a regional shopping centre, Watford’s traffic and parking problems are obviously affected and the council is duty bound to deal with congestion on the town centre road system, the main approach roads and on bus routes. The council, therefore, also has a policy enforcing parking restrictions and controls on bank holidays which are among the busiest days for shopping.
A penalty charge notice is set at £70/£50 depending on the severity of the contravention, which is reduced to £35/£25 if paid within 14 days. For information on appealing against a parking ticket - see article below 'Parking ticket appeal procedure'.
Useful links
How do you rate this information / service?