More user-friendly and energy-efficient pay and display machines will be installed at 20 car parks across the Moorlands, Staffordshire Moorlands District Council revealed today. 

The council announced it has appointed Flowbird Smart City UK Limited to provide new machines to replace existing ones which are at the end of their useful life. 

Customers will be able to pay with coins or contactless via debit cards and phone payment apps. Current machines only take coins. 

Councillor James Aberley, Cabinet Member for Customer Services, said: "I'm pleased that we have now appointed the contractor to carry out work to replace all the pay and display machines at our car parks with modern, efficient machines.

"The current machines are at the end of life and don't offer the payment flexibility that customers now expect.

"These new machines will enable people to pay for parking in ways which suit them rather than having to find coins - an improvement many people have requested and which, I'm sure, will be very welcome!"

The upgrade means that people will be able to pay by card as well as cash (Sarah Garner).

To make them easy to use for all our customers, function buttons and payment areas will be brightly coloured to assist visually impaired and physically disabled people.

The new machines are dual power models which means that, in the first instance, they will operate on solar generated power backed up by mains power connections when required.

Work to install the new machines will begin later this year.

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