Richmond has a reputation for hating cars, but Lord True outlines the council's plans to scrap its CCTV ‘spy cars' and refund wrongly-issued parking tickets, in a bid to present a more car-friendly borough

Motorists are not cash cows to be milked to prop up council budgets. Parking control is a service like any other, designed to enable communities to share scarce road space equitably, where a local majority want intervention from a council, and to enable high streets to compete with giant multinationals offering free parking.