Yes, I am aware of that, Kempie, and indeed remember Birmingham passing control for parking to the council in 2004.
But I believed the parts of the Act that came in to force this year were 'add ons' and not automatic countrywide.
Where I live, for example, the council has control of the on street parking, but haven't adopted the part of the Act that would make them responsible for the enforcement of parking across driveways - and they have no plans to adopt it either but of costs.