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New planning guidance announced by the Government's communities secretary Eric Pickles is designed to push for more and reasonably priced town centre parking spaces and address "aggressive anti-car traffic calming measures" such as bollards and speed humps.
"Draconian town hall parking policies and street clutter can make driving into town centres unnecessarily stressful and actually create more congestion because of the lack of places to park.
"Trying to find somewhere to park has been an obstacle course in too many of our town cities and seaside resorts," said Pickles.
"Over-zealous parking wardens have been inflicting real damage on local economies and given many towns and councils a bad name."
As well as steering councils on the provision of "convenient, safe and secure" town centre parking that's appropriately charged and enforced in a way that's "proportionate", the new guidance says unnecessary clutter such as bollards and road humps "should be avoided".
But the Local Government Association argued that councils are already doing all they can.
"Parking measures help avoid congestion in our high streets. In fact, the Government's own figures show charges in England are falling in real terms while councils invest any revenue back into transport services like filling potholes and road improvement projects," said a LGA spokesman.
"The more government continues to intervene in this way, the less flexibility local authorities have to react to the individual needs of local shoppers, residents and traders and support local businesses and high streets in their area."
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