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		</div><p><a href="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/pledge-to-end-war-on-motorists.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-full" title="Councils will be able to price parking spaces competitively to attract drivers into town centres" src="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/min-pledge-to-end-war-on-motorists.jpg" alt="Councils will be able to price parking spaces competitively to attract drivers into town centres"/></a></p>
<p>Whitehall guidance encouraging town halls to impose higher parking charges is being scrapped as ministers pledge to end the &#8220;war on the motorist&#8221;.</p>
<p>Councils will now be able to price parking spaces competitively to attract drivers into town centres, Communities and Local Government Secretary Eric Pickles said.</p>
<p>Under transport planning guidance, local authorities have until now been required to set parking charges in a way that encourages people to use alternative forms of transport.</p>
<p>The Government believes that that policy &#8211; introduced by Labour in 2001 &#8211; unfairly punished motorists when cars are a lifeline for many people. The coalition&#8217;s emphasis instead is on promoting &#8220;sustainable green motoring&#8221;.</p>
<p>Ministers are also abolishing rules limiting the number of parking spaces for new homes.</p>
<p>Mr Pickles said: &#8220;Whitehall&#8217;s addiction to micromanagement has created a parking nightmare with stressed-out drivers running a gauntlet of unfair fines, soaring charges and a total lack of residential parking.</p>
<p>&#8220;The result is our pavements and verges crammed with cars on curbs endangering drivers, cyclists and pedestrians, increased public resentment of over-zealous parking wardens and escalating charges and fines.</p>
<p>&#8220;The Government is calling off Whitehall&#8217;s war on the motorist by scrapping the national policy restricting residential parking spaces and instructing councils to push up charges. We expect councils to follow suit.&#8221;</p>
<p>Transport Secretary Philip Hammond said it was &#8220;pessimistic&#8221; and &#8220;outdated&#8221; to say that only by forcing people out of their cars could carbon emissions be cut.</p>
<p>&#8220;This Government recognises that cars are a lifeline for many people &#8211; and that by supporting the next generation of electric and ultra-low emission vehicles, it can enable sustainable green motoring to be a long-term part of Britain&#8217;s future transport planning,&#8221; he said.</p>
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