The Hague local council is exploring the possibility of upping parking fees for outsize cars and banning requests for third parking licences to keep the city “accessible and liveable”.

SUVs, or asobakken (anti-social wheels) as they are commonly known, take up room in car parks and on the street, which is why the council is looking at size to determine the new fees.

“We are trying to see if we can link up with the database of the vehicle licensing agency RDW so if a number plate is scanned the size of the car is included as well,” a council spokesman told the AD. According to RDW figures, The Hague numbers some 731 cars – small vans and trucks excepted – that are longer than 5.5 metres and don’t fit the city’s parking spaces.

Exactly which cars will pay more to park is still being debated. “It is cars that are too big for the spaces available. You could ask yourself if they should really be used in our streets at all,” transport chief Arjen Kaptijns told the paper.

A change in next year’s parking rules will also exclude the possibility of a third parking space per household. “We want the city to be accessible and liveable for everyone,” he told local broadcaster Den Haag FM.

The Hague is not the only city to want to levy a higher parking charge on big cars. A proposal by Amsterdam transport chief Melanie van der Horst to tax big cars by weight had to be abandoned because, she said, the city could not diverge from national regulations.

The same is true for the measure The Hague council is contemplating, which would need new national rules and technical adaptations for policing the cars via mobile scanners. The city will lobby the government for a change in the rules in the months to come.

Other European cities like Koblenz and Paris have already upped parking fees for big cars, but the latter is only taxing foreign vehicles.