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Sebastian McCormick & David Spereall

Illegal parking going unchallenged in Leeds as council can not recruit traffic wardens

Leeds City Council is having difficulty recruiting traffic wardens as the numbers are currently below "historic levels".

While this may be good news for some drivers, it has left illegal parking on streets and in car parks unmonitored in large swathes of the city. Councillors acknowledged the problems in recruitment had been going on since the pandemic.

The information was revealed in a briefing note by the council to a committee on Monday, November 14.

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