International Removals from Birmingham

The same table gives £18.90 as the daily charge for one to three bays, and the page says the charge runs “every day including Sundays and bank holidays”. Administration is also £18.90. “Costs must be paid before suspension starts.” The notice is short compared with most councils in this guide: “You must give us at least 48 hours' notice for us to consider granting a parking bay suspension.”

Two limits follow from the page. Bays inside the city centre controlled parking zones are handled by the parking team, while bays outside them may need a temporary traffic regulation order from the highways team, so an outer suburb can mean a second office. A removal lorry that needs only to stop on a restriction, not to reserve the space, can use a dispensation instead: “The cost is £23.90 per vehicle, per day.” It adds that “All dispensations are granted at the discretion of Birmingham City Council.”

The charge for the vehicles a removal might use is stated as “£8 per day for cars, taxi and LGVs”, with £50 a day for coaches, buses and heavy goods vehicles. Payment is the driver's job: “you as a driver are fully responsible for understanding and managing all payments”. The council adds that a day runs midnight to midnight, and “you can enter and leave the zone numerous times and only incur a single charge”. A lorry that loads before midnight and leaves after it counts as two days.

Pay inside the 13-day window, which opens six days before the visit and closes six days after, or “you will receive a Penalty Charge Notice (PCN) in the post of £120, reduced to £60 if paid within 14 days”. The charge text on that page comes from the 2021 charging order, so ask the firm to check the figure on the day.