Parking permit blunder leaves street stranded

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Richard Payne and his neighbours in Florence Street, Strood, have been told they will no longer be able to purchase parking permits for their homes due to a “human error” - only picked up by the council 20 years later.

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00:00 Yesterday I received a letter from Medway Council stating that my permit will be revoked

00:08 as we live in a private street and for whatever reason it hasn't been picked up on audit that

00:14 we live in a private street.

00:17 As you can see from behind me the street is too narrow for motor vehicles.

00:22 It's too narrow, too unmade.

00:26 It's dangerous to come into the street because if you drive in you would have to reverse

00:30 out onto a main road and if you reverse in you have to perform a dangerous manoeuvre

00:36 on the main road in order to reverse back into the street.

00:39 So at the moment I've never parked in this street because it is completely unsuitable.

00:44 I have to have my car where it's always been for 20 odd years.

00:50 Having this, if anywhere, I mean I'm too old now to actually say "OK look I'm going to

00:55 sell this house and move somewhere else.

00:57 I'm 71, I'm on a pension, I can't get a mortgage, I've retired, I have no recourse, I have nowhere

01:04 to go with this."

01:06 And so the only thing I could think of is that to bring this to a head I would have

01:11 to break the law and park in a controlled parking place and be taken to court and then

01:16 we'll have it out there.

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