A new law giving motorists 10 minutes grace in council owned spaces in England has been passed.

Drivers in England will get 10 minutes’ grace before being fined if they stay too long in council- owned car parking spaces, the government has announced.
It is one of several changes, expected to take effect later this month, which include new restrictions on the use of CCTV cars issuing automatic fines.
Communities Secretary Eric Pickles said he wanted to end the “war on drivers”
But councils said many already allowed 10 minutes’ leeway and raised concerns about the safety of other changes.
According to figures from the RAC Foundation, councils in England made a combined surplus of £667 million from their on and off-street parking operations in 2013-14. By law, any surplus councils make from parking fees must be ploughed back into transport projects such as road improvements. Westminster Council, which made a £51m surplus from parking fines, said it already applied a “common-sense approach to parking”.