Cllr Terry Renshaw, the mayor of Flint, said the move would see money from fines and parking tickets used to improve the town they are issued in, rather than disappear into Home Office funds.

A traffic warden's report presented to Flint Town Council showed that 27 parking tickets were issued during November last year.

Cllr Renshaw said: "If parking offences were decriminalised, then the fines collected in Flint could be used to directly benefit Flint.

"There is no point in all the money being sent down to London when it could be put to good use in all our town centres."

Members of the town council also discussed the possibility of setting up automatic number plate recognition (ANPR) checks in Flint town centre.

Cllr Renshaw said: "We are paying a traffic warden to patrol the town centre regularly, issuing fines and looking for cars with out of date tax and other offences.

"If we were to implement ANPR checks, which take just a few seconds to recognise a vehicle's numberplate and check it against a police database, then we would save a lot of money.

"We would be able to check if any vehicles in our town centre are on the police wanted list, or if they have expired tax and at the same time we would be able to record the registration numbers of vehicles parking incorrectly and send them a fixed penalty notice in the post."

Flint town council agreed to write to both Flintshire Council and North Wales Police to find out if it will be possible to enforce the checks in the centre of Flint.