A long shot, but I want to fight what Islington Council have done to Residents zone A. Without any contact by the Council, and no letters or clear information, they changed the local area to No Parking from Midnight till 6am. I’m a resident and pay for local street parking. But all bays within 1/2 a kilometre were taken. So I parked at midnight on a Sunday on a yellow line in this residential street. Believing that as there were no warnings in the street, that I wasn’t breaking any law. The situation comes about as the council take on more resident registrations, yet decrease the parking availability. And they are making a lot of money from outlawing formerly safe yellow lines outside of peak hours. These streets have only residents parking, apart from a few tiny stretches of yellow lines. And with inadequate street marking. I’m used to seeing a restriction notice on yellow lines. But now I learn that I should have seen the local parking zone restriction notice when entering my local area. The thing being that I’d always been able to park within an unoccupied residents bay up till recently. And I’d not learnt of any changes to the parking restrictions I’d known previously. I’d presumed that the sign nearby, shown below, indicated a restriction only for busses and lorries. There was no sign next to this indicating cars could not be parked outside of peak hours. So why are they putting up a sign inside the local zone for goods vehicles and yet not for cars?(!)
I might have a case in stating these facts to my Council, although...! So I realise I’m pushing it. 8-( But I have an intermittent neurological illness that means I’m pretty much broke, and on sickness benefit. So I don’t have the money to pay this unfortunately. I’m on a knife edge financially in terms of running my oldish classic motor. But it provides me some sanity, by driving to the green parks when I can! Yet I realise the council have no interest in this, probably!
One possibility is that the contravention occurred on 5/11/17. Yet the Notice To Owner only came in the post yesterday. I had sent an email to the council, asking for the charge to be dropped. And they’d taken a couple of months to reply! And it’s now March 2018!
Any help is gratefully appreciated!