Drivers will get 10 minutes' grace before being fined if they stay too long in council-owned car parks in England, the government has announced.
The new leeway, expected to take effect later this month, will apply to free and paid-for parking spaces both on streets and in off-street car parks.
It is one of several changes which include new restrictions on the use of CCTV cars issuing automatic fines.
Communities Secretary Eric Pickles said he wanted to end the "war on drivers".
The changes include:
- guidance for councils reminding them they are banned from "using parking to generate profit"
- a right for residents and businesses to demand - by a petition - that a council "reviews parking in their area"
- new powers for parking adjudicators so they can "hold councils to account"
- protection to stop drivers being fined after parking at out-of-order meters
- a ban on the use of CCTV "spy cars" except in no-parking areas such as bus lanes and near schools
Mr Pickles said: "We are ending the war on drivers who simply want to go about their daily business.
"For too long parking rules have made law-abiding motorists feel like criminals, and caused enormous damage to shops and businesses.
"Over-zealous parking enforcement undermines our town centres and costs councils more in the long term.
According to figures from the RAC Foundation, councils in England made a combined surplus of £667 million from their on and off-street parking operations in 2013-14.
Director Prof Stephen Glaister said motorists did not care how parking regulations were enforced as long as it was done fairly.
"For such a minor part of our lives parking generates a huge amount of frustration and anger," he said.
"Allowing a grace period will help ease tensions and make everyone's lives easier.
"The shame is that we have required ministerial intervention to tackle the 'rules are rules' culture which can result in heavy handed and disproportionate penalties."
The changes come from new laws, guidance to councils and use of a statutory instrument - through which ministers can make rules without an act of Parliament.
AA president Edmund King also welcomed the announcement.
He said: "This is a common sense move. All too often there are discrepancies between the car clock, the civic clock, the pay-and-display clock, the parking attendant's clock and the driver's watch, which all result in disputed tickets.
He added it was counter-productive to have parking attendants "hiding in doorways to issue tickets the minute a ticket runs out, as this deters drivers from shopping in the high street".
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