Motorists who overstay their parking may not be greeted with a printed docket on their windscreen as the Council moves to a smarter and more sustainable process from Monday 4 March.
Council has adopted the Revenue NSW Print and Post service following successful uptake by 38 councils across the state.
Council rangers will upload the details of parking offences to the Revenue NSW server, and Revenue NSW will print and send the notice to the vehicle owner via email or post.
This new system offers a significant cost saving to the Council and our ratepayers, is more environmentally friendly and provides recipients with more information about the offence.
Revenue NSW introduced the system in response to a number of issues with the old docket system including:
- recipients being confused by the docket style fines and the limited fine information provided
- fines being removed, leaving people unaware of the fine until they receive a reminder notice with less time to act
- administrative costs and staff resources required to send out letters.
How does it work?
- Council officers will carry out their usual parking patrols.
- Officers will capture details of the offence as well as any relevant images onto their device. The details and images are uploaded onto the server.
- Revenue NSW downloads this information each day, retrieves the vehicle owner’s details, prints and posts the fine on Revenue NSW’s letterhead on behalf of Council.
- Within 2-3 days, the customer receives the notice via email (or post) and can view any images associated with the fine on the myPenalty page on the Revenue NSW website.
The Print and Post service will apply to all parking offences from Monday 4 March.
For more information on Parking visit https://www.northernbeaches.nsw.gov.au/services/parking
Media release provided by Northern Beaches Council, 1st March 2024