by sagossgroup | Sep 15, 2026 | Insights
If you have ever run a full open tender for a parking system, you know the shape of it: the better part of a year, a clarification log running to hundreds of lines, and a real risk the market has moved on by the time you award. Frameworks shorten that journey without...
by sagossgroup | Sep 1, 2026 | Parking News
For years, councils outside London have been in an awkward position on pavement parking. Residents complain, disability groups campaign, and the council can do little unless it makes a Traffic Regulation Order street by street. The police, who hold the obstruction...
by sagossgroup | Aug 18, 2026 | Insights
We spend a lot of time talking about technology. But the honest answer to “what makes a car park run well” has less to do with any single product and more to do with habits we have seen the best-run operations share, whether a city council, a train...
by sagossgroup | Aug 4, 2026 | Insights
Ask a room of parking managers whether they want to go cashless and most hands go up. Fewer stay up when you ask who has had a complaint from a resident without a smartphone, or a councillor forwarding a letter about a “phone-only” car park. Cash handling...
by sagossgroup | Jul 21, 2026 | Parking News
The Local Electric Vehicle Infrastructure (LEVI) fund has moved from announcement to delivery. The fund, which has awarded capital funding to local authorities across England, is being turned into chargepoint operator concessions, procurement exercises and,...
by sagossgroup | Jul 7, 2026 | Insights
We describe Blink as a 360° parking platform: 360 Access, Complete Overview, Full Control. It is a neat line, but slogans do not tell you what a Tuesday feels like. So here is one, told through a composite parking manager we will call Priya, who looks after fourteen...
by sagossgroup | Jun 23, 2026 | Insights
Automatic number plate recognition has been used in UK car parks for well over a decade, yet it still attracts more suspicion than almost any other parking technology. Some of that suspicion is misplaced. Some of it is a fair challenge that operators should be able to...
by sagossgroup | Jun 9, 2026 | Insights
Nobody chooses a university for its parking. But ask an estates director what generates the most complaints in freshers’ week, or a travel planner what they wish they knew about how staff actually arrive, and parking comes up fast. A campus car park is rarely a...
by sagossgroup | May 26, 2026 | Insights
Somewhere in your organisation there is probably a box of permits. A drawer of laminated cards, a spreadsheet of who has which one, and an inbox full of replacements, renewals and “my car is in the garage, can I use my partner’s”. Multiply that...
by sagossgroup | May 12, 2026 | At the Sagoss Office
Most parking kiosks on UK streets were assembled somewhere else. There is nothing wrong with that in principle, and plenty of good equipment arrives in containers. But when a council or an NHS trust asks us where our kiosks come from, we are pleased to give a short...
