NO TO BIKE PARKING FEES

- London’s leading independent motorcycle and scooter dealer joins forces - Campaign prepares to challenge Westminster City Council in the courts

- Emailed objections soar in week leading to demonstration - Numbers ‘could gridlock’ Victoria Street

- Huge numbers expected to deliver objections by hand on July 1st - Security issues raised over pay-by-phone system - Westminster admits tax is for 'controlling' numbers of bikes

Protests continue as Westminster Council tries to hang on to bike parking tax. Thousands expected to rally against the charges.

The No To Bike Parking Tax Campaign has highlighted payments from Haulage Firms to Westminster Council, that call into question ‘template letters’ from those firms to the NTBPT Campaign, who are calling for an end to charging for motorcycle bays.

The NTBPT Campaign reacted with scorn today to Westminster’s attempt to push through their tax by reducing the daily rate in bays and installing some free bays in carparks, in a move seen as political maneuvering to gain publicity for the Council.

Cllr Danny Chalkley and former Evening Standard reporter Oliver Finegold have been drafting template letters for business organizations, in an attempt to pressure the No To Bike Parking Fees campaign into halting a Central London protest on May 11th.

Thousands of demonstrators are expected to converge on the heart of Westminster on the 11th May in protest at parking charges for motorbikes and scooters in the borough, in what could be one of the largest demonstrations of its kind seen in London.