Property News · May 28, 2018

Residents face £60 ticket as road is turned into private car park


Anger in wake of more cases that expose injustice of unregulated parking enforcementThe undated letters addressed to “The Occupier”, were pushed through doors along a cul-de-sac in Aldershot, Hampshire, on a Thursday in November. Those who bothered to open what looked like junk mail discovered that part of the road had been sold to a private company and they would have to buy a £2.50-a-week permit to leave their cars outside their homes where free parking had been available for 50 years. They also had to pay a £75 deposit or face a £60 further charge.One resident, Elizabeth Thomson, was caught unawares, having been away. “I came back on Sunday night in the dark and rain and parked where I have for the past 10 years,” she says. “I woke up the next morning to a £60 parking ticket, and, in the daylight, I could see two signs warning of charges which had apparently gone up on Friday evening. Continue reading…

Source : theguardian.com
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