The Parking Guru Ltd

Unmatched Experience

We have over 100 years of parking experience between us and no project too big or small.

A small team of highly experienced parking professionals able to deliver small and large projects, including procurement, MSCP build, parking strategies reviews and introducing moving traffic enforcement outside of London.

We specialise in achieving NZC ambitions whilst retaining income levels and have achieved a British Parking Association award for the innovative EV hierarchy parking permit scheme (charging electric vehicles by battery size) for Islington Council, collaborating with Citisense. Our scheme was also nominated for 2 CiTTi awards.

Strong industry contacts

Experienced at large scale
multi-million pound procurement

About Us

We provide parking consultancy services for local authorities and the private sector. All consultants have in excess of 20 years parking experience and most have been a former head of service for local authority.

We specialise in procurement (large or small) and parking strategy review to optimise income whilst still achieving net zero carbon objectives. We have been involved in the electric vehicle industry since 2010 and can assist with electric vehicle strategies and infrastructure.

Experience

Providing consultancy services across a wide range of projects including the current development of a parking strategy and a range of procurement services including the renewal of the main parking contracts with £100M value of contract to suppliers.

Islington Council were recently awarded the British Parking Association innovation award for a scheme we lead on in conjunction with Citisense, charging electric vehicles by battery size, it is a world first. Islington Council also received 2 CiTTi award nominations for this ground breaking scheme

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Achievements we are proud of

Key career highlights include:

Introduction
of world first and award winning electric vehicle permit band system whereby electric vehicles are charged according to battery size
Reform
of permit systems to achive multi-million pound savings
Digitisation
of services including pay and display machine removal and conversion to cashless parking, virtual permits, e-forms and chat-bot technology
Organisational transformation
of failing services, achieving efficiencies of over 30% via cultural change whilst maintaining and improving customer offering and reputation.
Delivery
of green and electric vehicle infrastructure, including 350 electric vehicle charging points (88 rapid) in a single borough, and an electric highway connecting Oxford to Cambridge, at no operational cost to the authority.

We have

Successful collaborations with;

The London Borough of Islington
The London Borough of Hounslow
The London Borough of Merton
The London Borough of Ealing (via Citisense)
The London Borough of Croydon (via Citisense)
Central Bedfordshire Council (via Citisense)
East Hertfordshire Council (via Citisense)

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We have over 100 years of parking experience between us and no project too big or small.

Experienced at large scale
multi-million pound procurement

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Supporting Articles

The new permit system was created & implemented by Islington’s assistant director of parking services Rubena Hafizi & parking consultant Sara Bailey.

Led by Rubena Hafizi & Sara Bailey & championed by Tony Ralph and Cllr Rowena Champion worked closely in partnership with Citisense

Watch out SUV drivers, big cars will pay more for parking