Workplace Parking Levy: scope, scheme content, order confirmation, exemptions, provider liability, penalties, representations, appeals, payment and recovery (Archived Practice Note)

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This archived Practice Note is not kept up to date. It provides guidance on the workplace parking levy, a charge imposed on occupiers of car parking spaces made available for staff. It covers: the scope of workplace parking levy licensing schemes; statutory requirements for the content of schemes; the provider’s liability; penalty charges; representations and appeals; and payment and recovery processes.

Under Chapter 12 of the Transport Act 2000, certain local traffic authorities have the power to bring in workplace parking levy licensing schemes, enabling them to charge the occupier of premises for a licence for car parking spaces (‘licensed units’) that are occupied by motor vehicles and supplied for use by:

a relevant person
employees, agents, suppliers, business customers or business visitors of a relevant person
pupils or students attending training delivered by a relevant person
where a body controlled by its members is a relevant person, a member of that body engaged in the conduct of any business of the body to attend a place where the relevant person carries on business (at or near the premises)

A relevant person is:

the person who...

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