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Night parking problem
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• MPs pressed in vain last week for the Government to take speedy action to stop overnight parking by lorries in residential streets—a topic raised regularly in the Commons.
"With the help of chief constables, a working party on lorry parking is now carrying out counts of lorries parked at night in streets and on derelict land," they were told by Mr Eldon Griffiths, Under Secretary of State for the Environment. "Once we have the results of those counts, we shall be able to make a judgment of the problem."
Mr T. L. Iremonger (Con., Ilford North) asked what effect the restriction of hours worked by drivers had had on the problem, and Mr Griffiths replied that he had no evidence to show what the effect was—but the whole question of drivers' hours was a matter at which Ministers were looking.
Mr Iremonger urged consideration of legislation to enable lorry drivers to use their common sense to get to a proper place to park.