Council issue parking tickets after lines are painted around cars

A whole street of cars in Thornton Heath, London got £100 parking fines after lines were painted around them. Angry drivers on Grange Park Road came back to find tickets on their windscreens and parking bays sloppily painted around their cars.

Alisa Flemming, who works for MP Malcolm Wicks, arrived at work at 10am and parked her car on the newly tarred road. As there were no parking bays drawn in, she did not pay for a ticket.

When she returned to her car at 2.30pm she noticed a white bay had been painted around her car and found she had been ticketed.



She said: "You could tell that they had drawn parking bays around the cars because some of them are longer than others. There is also a gap in the yellow line along one side of the road where they could not paint around the car that was there.

"All the cars had tickets, a lot of people had just thrown their tickets on the ground and driven off. I was shocked but also completely amazed. It is like something out of a comedy sketch.I could not even get angry. I just thought to myself: 'Only in Croydon.'"

A council spokesman said: “At present the exact circumstances are unclear and the council’s parking services team will be looking into the matter. In the meantime, the affected motorists are, as is stated on the penalty charge notice, perfectly within their rights to challenge the PCN."