One parking ticket every seven and a half minutes in new Brighton zone (From The Argus)
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One parking ticket every seven and a half minutes in new Brighton zone
1:10pm Wednesday 21st July 2010 in
A parking ticket was issued every seven and a half minutes on the first morning of new restrictions in Kemp Town.
Motorists have accused parking wardens of “harassing” them and said more warnings should have been issued before the tickets began to fly.
Forty tickets were dished out on Monday in the first five hours of new extensions to Zone H, around the Royal Sussex County Hospital, Brighton, which includes a mixture of resident parking permits and pay-and-display zones.
For Marcus Bevan, who was doing building work at a house in Bristol Road, it meant moving his van every two hours.
He said: “The wardens harass you. They’re straight on you as soon as you’re a few minutes over. It means I lose a lot of time driving around looking for a space instead of getting on with my work.”
Thomas Buzzing, 38, from Hove, narrowly avoided a ticket when he returned to his car on Bristol Gardens with seconds to spare.
He said: “I can understand they’ve got a job to do but sometimes there’s no reasoning. Forty tickets in a few hours is a bit over the top. Issuing warnings would have been a good idea on the first day.”
Arun District Council began its new parking enforcement programme this month with a two-week “amnesty”, in which motorists were handed parking tickets with no charges on them.
But according to Coun Geoffrey Theobald, cabinet member for environment at Brighton and Hove City Council, motorists were suitably warned.
He said: “Parking wardens issued 600 warning letters to drivers last week in the run up the scheme going live. In addition, work has been going on since early June putting up signs and painting lines.
“Also every resident living in the area will have received a letter with information about the scheme, and inviting them to apply for a permit.”
Comments(34)
PrestigeLyon
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1:24pm Wed 21 Jul 10
This I don't get. Surely he just pays for the parking and rolls it into his costs for the client. Not an unreasonable expense to ask for.
BlackRocker
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1:27pm Wed 21 Jul 10
Mr Bluesky
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1:30pm Wed 21 Jul 10
Sounds like he came up with a crafty excuse to have a break every couple of hours.
ICantThinkOfAName
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1:39pm Wed 21 Jul 10
Tally Ho!
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1:53pm Wed 21 Jul 10
ICantThinkOfAName wrote:YOU SIR!........ ARE A GENIUS!
Perhaps all the displaced motorists could now park in Roedean Road and thus discourage all the coaches tht have been parking there. There, two problems solved.
gorblimeyguv
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2:24pm Wed 21 Jul 10
Rougvie Legend
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2:58pm Wed 21 Jul 10
tombraider59
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3:44pm Wed 21 Jul 10
gorblimeyguv
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3:52pm Wed 21 Jul 10
BlackRocker
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3:58pm Wed 21 Jul 10
gorblimeyguv wrote:Alternatively, park at lovely Lidl at the end of Eastern Road and catch almost any bus (1,1a,7 etc) on the other side of the road; they all stop at the hospital.
When I go to Sussex County I drive to Brighton Marina where there is a free parking and then catch a number 7 bus and I am there in 10mins.
gorblimeyguv
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4:08pm Wed 21 Jul 10
BlackRocker
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4:14pm Wed 21 Jul 10
gorblimeyguv wrote:Oh, thanks for the warning!
Park longer than one hour at Lidles and a firm of debt collectors trace you through the DVLA and send a fine through the post. This happened to a friend of mine and it really is not worth the grief. The Marina is the best option.
rayellerton
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4:38pm Wed 21 Jul 10
PrestigeLyon wrote:I.m a plasterer, and i cant just up and leave to move my car and find another space as my work would be ruined. Plaster has a setting time and my work is ruled by that! Plus, as i use a car for my work tools and eqipment i cant get a permit either...
"For Marcus Bevan, who was doing building work at a house in Bristol Road, it meant moving his van every two hours."
This I don't get. Surely he just pays for the parking and rolls it into his costs for the client. Not an unreasonable expense to ask for.
monty sidewinder
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4:49pm Wed 21 Jul 10
PrestigeLyon wrote:the meters do not allow you to park for longer than 2hrs so you have to move on and then you cannot return to that space for a further 4hrs - hence the need to constantly drive around looking for a space - waivers are not available in every road and there is usually only one waiver per road and now you have to take a job sheet into the parking office to prove you are not joe public trying to scam cheap parking for a day. i am in the building trade and spend an average of £50 a month on parking - this council does not like trades people - we exist for revenue purposes only. ditto all the visitors that fall foul of the over zelous parking restrictions.
"For Marcus Bevan, who was doing building work at a house in Bristol Road, it meant moving his van every two hours."
This I don't get. Surely he just pays for the parking and rolls it into his costs for the client. Not an unreasonable expense to ask for.
gorblimeyguv
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5:03pm Wed 21 Jul 10
Greenlover
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5:19pm Wed 21 Jul 10
acoustic
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7:12pm Wed 21 Jul 10
special brew
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7:30pm Wed 21 Jul 10
Fight Back
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7:43pm Wed 21 Jul 10
gorblimeyguv wrote:As per the advise on www.moneysavingexper
Park longer than one hour at Lidles and a firm of debt collectors trace you through the DVLA and send a fine through the post. This happened to a friend of mine and it really is not worth the grief. The Marina is the best option.
t.com and from the BBCs Watchdog - ignore these unenforcable demands from these scum companies.
Regards the parking extention from Brighton & Hove Council - it's nothing but a money making scheme - it doesn't help people to park. Councillor Theobald doesn't care as he lives in a very big house on Dyke Road Avenue with loads of free parking.
Rita Snatch
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8:21pm Wed 21 Jul 10
I have also just had a new Gas Boiler installed by British Gas.
Residents can obtain daily parking vouchers for their workmen and their own friends when they visit. I provided these permits to my workmen... so why can't others?
davyboy
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8:23pm Wed 21 Jul 10
tombraider59
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8:48pm Wed 21 Jul 10
davyboy wrote:Yes, thanks for that. Hubbie has had a look and he thinks the double yellow line solution is not a good one for that particular area. I must day that parking at the Marina is a good option - thanks to everyone for their suggestions.
can't say i'm surprised! people do not, or cannot, read the signs. if, as they say, these signs went up from june, then people really have no excuse. tombraider 59, with a disabled badge, you can park on double yellows for up to 3 hours, as long as you park sensibly, and not cause an obstruction.
twosugars
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10:37pm Wed 21 Jul 10
BlackRocker wrote:if you do bus in from lidl's ask for a "short hop" - £1 per adult one way between lidl and gala bingo. if you just ask for a adult single you'll get charged £1.80
gorblimeyguv wrote: When I go to Sussex County I drive to Brighton Marina where there is a free parking and then catch a number 7 bus and I am there in 10mins.Alternatively, park at lovely Lidl at the end of Eastern Road and catch almost any bus (1,1a,7 etc) on the other side of the road; they all stop at the hospital.
J.J. McQuade
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10:54pm Wed 21 Jul 10
monty sidewinder wrote:£50 a month parking......not bad value when you consider most builders want £100 per hour labour!.......
PrestigeLyon wrote:the meters do not allow you to park for longer than 2hrs so you have to move on and then you cannot return to that space for a further 4hrs - hence the need to constantly drive around looking for a space - waivers are not available in every road and there is usually only one waiver per road and now you have to take a job sheet into the parking office to prove you are not joe public trying to scam cheap parking for a day. i am in the building trade and spend an average of £50 a month on parking - this council does not like trades people - we exist for revenue purposes only. ditto all the visitors that fall foul of the over zelous parking restrictions.
"For Marcus Bevan, who was doing building work at a house in Bristol Road, it meant moving his van every two hours."
This I don't get. Surely he just pays for the parking and rolls it into his costs for the client. Not an unreasonable expense to ask for.
Living in the real world
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11:20pm Wed 21 Jul 10
Happy Days...........
Victoria50
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2:25am Thu 22 Jul 10
bertnz
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8:46am Thu 22 Jul 10
sussex123
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8:49am Thu 22 Jul 10
Brighton-Man
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12:14pm Thu 22 Jul 10
deve
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12:17pm Thu 22 Jul 10
Wiggsy
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1:00pm Thu 22 Jul 10
Brighton-Man wrote:Take it you'll be moving soon then?
Brighton has become a motorists robbing town! We pay our taxes thru road tax and fuel and now every where you look in Brighton, you have to pay for parking too! DAY LIGHT ROBBERY OF THE MOTORISTS!!!!! The coucil has even changed the one yellow lines to double lines to stop people parking free on Sundays! I want to know what council does with all the money they suck out of us all??? I for sure do not see any improvements in Brighton. the town is dirty and old, patched up pavements, lousy old looking sea front........ the list goes on
Baldseagull
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2:36pm Thu 22 Jul 10
PrestigeLyon wrote:his customers may not be so happy that every couple of hours he has to leave the job and spend 15-20 mins finding a new place to park.
"For Marcus Bevan, who was doing building work at a house in Bristol Road, it meant moving his van every two hours."
This I don't get. Surely he just pays for the parking and rolls it into his costs for the client. Not an unreasonable expense to ask for.
About an hour of the working day spent unproductively.
gorblimeyguv
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6:23pm Thu 22 Jul 10
http://www.brighton-
hove.gov.uk/index.cf
m?request=b1104347
The extensive list on the first page has just the ones beginning with "A"; they go all the way through to "Z". One shudders to think what kind of salaries the heads of all these departments are on. Let us start by eliminating the ones that serve no purpose at all except to reinforce the council's stance on political correctness and work our way up until we reach the ones that impact on real life in Brighton. On top of having to finance a bloated and ineffectual council by our every movement being taxed we have to put up with the illiterate and sneering remarks from people whose only environmental qualifications are absenting themselves from literacy classes and washing their "cardy" twice a year (Greenlover?)
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Tally Ho! says...
1:19pm Wed 21 Jul 10
Slightly less emotive.. Residents have been complaining about the parking for years... now they can have permits... You get what you deserve, you just do not always deserve what you get...