UK-wide parking app may be out of road after government funding withdrawn

Five-year-old platform intended to make drivers' lives easier will only be supported until the end of March

• Those without smartphones unfairly penalised, say campaigners
• How to navigate apps: from checking safety to recalling passwords
• UK-wide parking app may be out of road after funding withdrawn

It was hailed as the future of UK parking", intended to remove one of the bugbears of modern life: the need to sign up to a plethora of different apps in order to park your car.

But a big question mark now hangs over the future of the National Parking Platform (NPP), a government-funded scheme designed to make drivers' lives easier by letting them use one app of their choice to pay for all their parking.