Johnson also said: "Or if a resident's bay isn't heavily used during the day, we could open that up. During the night and early morning it could be residents only, but during the day it could be used for loading, visitors, paid for parking etc. This information gives us the ability to look at these things."

Lodge also said that it extends past the parking services division, as it could even impact planning permission applications.

She explained: "Planning decisions are sometimes based on if there's too much occupancy on the street. Say someone has put in a planning application for four new flats, if the occupancy rate on the street is 100%, they have to provide off-street parking.

"At the moment I don't know how they are doing that."