UK-wide parking app to be rolled out by industry bodies after pilot scheme

The app is intended to connect participating car parks to a shared platform on which drivers can pay using any approved app. Photograph: Simon Dack/Alamy

For motorists fed up with having to wrestle with a phone full of apps to pay for parking their car, relief could finally be in sight with a unified app.

Lengthy delays have dogged a government-funded initiative, the National Parking Platform (NPP), designed to let people use one app to pay for all their parking instead of having to sign up to a plethora of services.