Civil Parking Enforcement (CPE) and Bus Lane Enforcement, transfers the responsibilities for on-street parking from the police to the local highway authority, which in this case is Cambridgeshire County Council. This allows on-street offences to be treated as civil matters enforced by local authority civil enforcement officers rather than by the police.
To take up these powers, Cambridgeshire County Council as the Highway Authority is required to make an application to the Secretary of State via the Department for Transport (DfT) to decriminalise parking enforcement.
Currently, CPE powers have been adopted in three districts: Cambridge City, South Cambridgeshire, and Huntingdonshire. The County Council is actively supporting Fenland District Council in undertaking the necessary assessments and preparing the CPE application.
Bus lane enforcement powers have been implemented in Cambridge City, and the County Council has submitted additional applications to extend these powers to South Cambridgeshire and Huntingdonshire.