Tesco Didcot plans ANPR camera and parking restrictions

Summarised from 2 outlets · Updated 17 Oct, 16:32 · Archive

Tesco's Didcot Superstore has applied to install an ANPR camera in its car park to manage parking and prevent misuse.

Tesco's Didcot Superstore on Wallingford Road, North Moreton, has applied to install an Automatic Number Plate Recognition (ANPR) camera in its car park. The application has been submitted to South Oxfordshire District Council.

According to car park manager Horizon Parking Ltd, the system is designed to 'facilitate a better car park management system'. The scheme aims to prevent misuse of the car park and address congestion both at the site and on the surrounding public highway. The car park's physical size and number of parking spaces will not change.

New parking restrictions will come with the system. Customers will be permitted a three-hour maximum free stay between 6am and midnight, the store's opening hours. Between midnight and 5am, and from 6pm on Sunday to 6am on Monday, only a free 15-minute stay will be allowed. Disabled blue badge holders can register their vehicles at the Customer Service desk in store to receive additional time. The system will issue fines of £70 to those breaching the restrictions.

How it is being reported

• Tesco store in town plans to install ANPR camera in car parkThe Tesco Didcot Superstore is introducing new parking restrictions in the car park, including an ANPR camera issuing £70 fines.Oxford Mail · 17 Oct, 16:00
• Tesco store in town plans to install ANPR camera in car parkThe Tesco Didcot Superstore is introducing new parking restrictions in the car park, including an ANPR camera issuing £70 fines.Oxfordshire Guardian · 17 Oct, 16:00

In this story: Tesco · South Oxfordshire District Council · Horizon Parking Ltd · Didcot · North Moreton

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