Conservative councillors will face calls to accept full responsibility for the failed ANPR parking system which “short changed” the people of Wycombe.

Labour councillor, Khalil Ahmed, will urge leader of the council, Katrina Wood, to accept “her own party’s culpability” in the parking fiasco which has cost the taxpayer around £1.28 million at a meeting of the full council on Thursday.

Last month WDC announced it had been forced to ditch the number plate recognition system in favour of pay-and-display - which will come into force on February 25.

Cllr Ahmed will address cllr Wood asking: “The fact that WDC installed a system which has failed to perform as intended begs the question as to why no due diligence appears to have been undertaken.

“Rather than extolling the virtues of the system would the leader not agree that the basic homework was not done and as a result the people of Wycombe have been short changed and is it not time that she came clean and accepted her own party’s culpability in this fiasco?”

Last year cllr Ahmed called for cabinet member for environment, cllr Jean Teesdale, to step down and accept responsibility for the ANPR failure after a Bucks Free Press investigation revealed ticket dodgers could be getting away without a fine.