Parking enforcement From hero... ...to zero When it comes to parking, the pandemic has provoked conflicting emotions. From Bournemouth to Sandwell, Sarah Juggins discovers how calls for enforcement can turn prickly in just a few weeks W e have become a nation obsessed with graphs well, thats what the governments television briefings on the course of the Covid-19 pandemic may have us believe. Certainly, if public opinion towards parking enforcement measures over the past few months was highlighted in graphic form, students of graph theory would be in their element as the line marking public approval took on a classic U shape. The shifting nature of public opinion is something Helen Taverner, parking manager at Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole Council (BCP), has experienced in the past few months. She refers to the short-term memory of many local residents as their opinion of enforcement measures veered from antagonistic, to 14 britishparking.co.uk PN Dec 2020 pp14-17 Lead.indd 14 23/11/2020 16:05