Taxpayers could face an estimated £30,000 bill to overhaul Bradford Council’s 130 parking machines to cope with the new 5p and 10p coins.

The new coinage is being introduced in January as part of an exercise by the Royal Mint and the Treasury aimed at saving up to £8 million a year.

Some pay and display machines across the district can take the new coins, after the council spent £109,000 on them.

But more will have to be changed, although Paul Ratcliffe, the council’s parking services manager, said it was too early to say what costs may be involved and the scale of the adaptations.

A spokesman said the authority would only know what needed to be done once talks with suppliers of the ticket machines had been concluded.

“Some machines might need reprogramming and some might need physical adaptations, but we do not know until talks have finished,” he said.