An official call for disciplinary action has been made against elected Liverpool councillors named today in a Liverpool ECHO investigation exposing an "unacceptable culture" around parking tickets at the local authority.
Today the ECHO has published the results of a 16-month investigation into how parking fines for elected politicians were dealt with over a period of years at Liverpool City Council. We found that between 2015 and 2020 there were 51 Penalty Charge Notices incurred by elected members that were cancelled by council officers without going through the official channels.
In its response to the ECHO's Freedom of Information investigation, the council "despite conducting extensive searches of its records, the council has not been able to locate any formal council records detailing why parking services cancelled the 51 PCNs referred to above."
