On this Day 1971: Leicester’s ‘Small Cars Only’ car park

OTD, November 22nd 1971…

ATV Today reporter Greg Barnes reports on a car-park in Leicester that is only for use by drivers of small cars.

In the report Barnes drives up to the entrance of the car-park in a Ford Cortina but is turned away as the vehicle is too big for the parking site.

Greg interviews Councillor Bill Scotton of Leicester City Council about the facility which has an eleven-foot limit on its spaces and is designed for the driver of Mini and other small cars. The parking lot was surprisingly successful for a decade however in the early-1980s closed for the final time with a court of law building replacing the area it occupied.