Sixty more jobs are to go in Conservative Westminster as the Council slashes its City Guardians and City Inspectors in an attempt to fill the £20 million hole in its budget caused by a massive decrease in parking fine income and the continuing effects of investing £17 million in now-failed Icelandic Banks. In 2009 the Council made 300 jobs redundant in order to cut costs. The City Guar...

Conservatives plan to bring in new West End Sunday and Evening parking charges to raise an extra £5.8 million income. Westminster City Council's parking income is predicted to be up to £4 million below budget, according to the Council's Strategic Director of Finance, Barbara Moorhouse, who has told Councillors: "Our best estimate, at this stage in the financial year, is that ...

Westminster Conservatives have axed 1,020 jobs over the past two years, following a 'Made in Westminster' financial disaster in 2009/10 which saw the Council's parking income fall by £20 million and a £60 million cuts programme instigated by the Council following the election of the Conservative-led Government in May 2010. So far the Council has been through five phases ...

Westminster Council’s income from Parking Fines has halved in the last three years, according to figures obtained by Labour Councillors. Since 2007/08 the Council's income from parking fines has been cut from £41 million to £20 million, while during the same period parking charges have brought in £48 million in 2009/10 – an increase of £6 million since 2007...

£20 million 'black hole' in the Council's finances forces Conservatives to increase charges for residents' parking. Above inflation increases in the cost of residents' parking permits, a 100% increase in the cost of parking meter charges in St John's Wood and the loss of free parking on single yellow lines after 6.30pm, have all been agreed by Westminster Counci...

Evening and Sunday parking charge plans provoke unprecedented coalition of opposition. Westminster Council's plans to raise an extra £7 million a year by introducing parking charges on Sundays and after 6.30pm, from Monday to Saturday, in order to fill its empty coffers, has provoked an unprecedented coalition of opposition, including the West End's theatres, musicians, actors, gal...

West End business, theatres, shoppers, musicians, church goers and restaurant staff to be hit by 'backdoor' parking tax increase. Following Westminster Conservatives' decision in August to introduce evening and Sunday parking charges in the West End to raise an extra £7 million a year, the Council has today announced plans to increase parking charges across the city by 10%, in...

Westminster residents face a £7.3 million bill in extra parking charges to help fill the £22 million hole in the Conservative-run Council's finances, according to Labour Councillors who have revealed details of the expected increased income that the new parking charges will generate. * Extending hours of operation in Inner Zones Monday-Saturday until midnight: £5,881,500 * T...

Conservatives cut services to children but £3 million a year "spin machine" carries on untouched. Labour Councillors have called for detailed scrutiny of Council plans to cut 20 jobs from the Children's Services Department as part of drastic plans to cut costs in the wake of the Council's loss of £17 million in now-failed Icelandic Banks. Labour Councillors say they are conce...

Labour says Conservatives are deliberately keeping the truth from voters. Westminster residents face a £7.3 million bill in extra parking charges if the Conservatives win the City Council elections on 6th May but there is not a word about these new tax rises in the Conservative election manifesto, say Labour. Labour say that the Conservatives' failure to mention the extra £7.3 mil...