A REVIEW of car parking policies and charges will be carried out on a town by town basis after a council spent £28,000 on a county wide review.

The councillor responsible said as a result of the review the authority had learned “there are no county wide solutions” but said data collected would help inform the local studies.

Parking charges have been a contentious issue in Monmouthshire before the existing charging structure was introduced in 2014. Chepstow and Abergavenny town councils successfully challenged decisions over parking charges made by the county council through the courts nearly 20 years ago.

The council’s latest review considered variations in parking charges and inconsistencies including why there are no charges in some towns.

Councilllor Paul Griffiths, the Labour cabinet member........

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