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Mansfield District Council's payment machines only take cash

Mansfield’s 13 council-run car parks will be upgraded to take card and contactless payments after a contract was awarded to an independent supplier of smart parking systems. UK-based IPS Group will implement the new systems, which will include automatic number plate recognition on entry and wave-and-pay exit barriers.

It comes after Mansfield District Council admitted that it ‘recognises the need’ to upgrade due to the ‘poor condition’ of the current payment systems, which all still only take cash. A risk assessment, completed as part of the decision to award the contract, warned that not upgrading the car parks would risk machines continuing to fail, income decreasing, and customers seeking alternative car parks that h

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