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Hi-tech cameras have led to thousands of people being fined while parking at country parks across Kent. Eight of the nine KCC-run green spaces now use ANPR equipment to record visitors – the only exception being the White Horse Wood Country Park at Detling, near Maidstone. The technology has led to 6,082 offenders receiving a parking ticket of £70, which is halved if paid within 14 days, in the six months leading up to November 30 last year. That equated to £38,910 in income from fines paid to the council. Motorists parking legitimately and paying the parking fee raised another £379,606 for th…