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Council Controlled Parking Zone Permits

gorses · 2010-09-17 12:24:37

Hi everyone, first post, bit of advice needed. My street is inside a Council run permit parking zone. I buy an annual permit which allows me to park my car outside my house. I also have a few books of 20 day visitor permits. I have had these 2/3 years. In April the council wrote informing me that from June my daily permits…

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peter_the_piper Posts: 30,269 Forumite

18 September 2010 at 7:03AM

gorses wrote: »

Plan B is to remove my annual permit and use the 'invalid' ones instead. I'll collect as many fines as I can - it will make a great story for the papers.

I will post back any outcomes.

Problem with this approach is that you will gather lots of fines, and these are real debts not like a ppc. These will add up to potentially hundreds for each one. Are you sure this is worth it for under £20.00? By all means make your councillors life hell but why get into so much Doo Doo ?:(

I'd rather be an Optimist and be proved wrong than a Pessimist and be proved right.
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