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PARKING Review PARKING STRUCTURES 39 European excellence

Q-Park Pré-aux-Péchaurs Allhallows, Bedford

Markthal, Q-Park Oxford Street,

The European Parking Award New parking structures winners will be revealed in • Q-Park : Pré-aux-Péchaurs, Antibes, France • Platanos Square Parking: Platanos Parking, Kifisia, Greece Berlin on 23 September • Interparking Nederland: Markthal, Rotterdam,

Three British parking projects are competing Renovated parking structure • Contipark: Stachus Car Park, Munich, for recognition in the European Parking • Makers Construction: Allhallows Car Park, Bedford, UK Awards, with the winners to be announced • Q-Park: Oxford Street, London, UK in Berlin on 23 September. Two refurbishment schemes are going Public space on-street parking products head-to-head in the ‘Renovated parking • Barcelona de Serveis Municipals: areaDUM, Barcelona, Spain structure category’. The remodelling of • APCOA Parking (UK): Measures to prevent Blue Badge fraud, UK Bedford Borough Council’s Allhallows multi- storey by Makers Construction was named Innovative schemes in off-street parking Best Refurbishment at this year’s British • Contipark: Betoscan, Germany Parking Awards. • VINCI Park: VINCI Park Mobility Centre, Paris, France The reinvention of Westminster City • Q-Park Netherlands: Open Data Loket, Netherlands Council’s underground car park in Cavendish Square as the Q-Park Oxford Circus is also Marketing & communications in parking competing. This project was commended in • VINCI Park: My VINCI Park mobile app, France the British Parking Awards. • Bescia Mobilita: Social customer care, APCOA Parking (UK)’s work with local authorities across Britain tackling Blue Badge fraud is competing in the on-street category. The European Parking Award is run by the Berlin will be ’s parking city European Parking Association with the aim The 17th EPA Congress takes place in Berlin next month of promoting improvements in public The role of parking in sustainable member and London Council’s Nick Lester- parking both on-street and off-street. The transport policy will be a theme running Davis the EPA’s president. contribution of parking to sustainable urban through the three days of the European The 17th EPA Congress, which host the mobility is a recurring theme in the awards, Parking Association Congress, which takes European Parking Awards, takes place as are customer service and urban place in Berlin between 23-25 September. alongside Parken, Germany’s annual development. The congress is the biennial gathering parking trade show. Over 100 companies This year 38 entries were received across of the European Parking Association (EPA), are taking part in the Parken 2015 trade five categories encompassing new build and a network of national parking show, which takes place from 23-25 refurbished car parks, on-street parking, organisations which shares best practice September and is free to visit. The event

innovations and marketing. All the short and discussed parking policy. The UK features parking management, technology listed entries have been visited by a jury of presence in Berlin will be strong, with the and construction specialists. experts. British Parking Association being a www.epacongress.eu

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