The town hall is set to introduce emissions based parking charges.
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The town hall has been urged not to break a promise by charging people for their first parking permit.
Councillors were urged to reconsider Newham s plan to introduce an emissions based charge at a council meeting on Monday, December 14.
Resident Liam Adam said: One argument made about [the council s] new tax is that every other borough has a similar charge. The main problem: the other boroughs didn t make a promise to residents that the first car permit would always be free. You can all pretend that was a previous council, but the vast majority of Newham residents, who own a car, don t see it that way.