Anger over pay-and-display parking meter on street where you can't park

Motorists have complained after being hit with fines for using a “misleading” parking meter on a South London street where there is no pay-and-display parking.

A pay-and-display machine in Clyde Road, Sutton has caused several unsuspecting people to receive fines of up to £110 as they presume it is for the parking bays next to it.



But these are for permit holders only, meaning people are then being given a ticket. The nearest parking space that can be used by motorists using the machines is about 160m away – or a three-minute walk – on a completely different street.

Charles Cornwell, 61, who has lived in Clyde Road for 35 years, said: “It’s the unfairness of it. It’s just a way of making revenue for the council, I think. It’s entrapment, putting a pay-and-display machine in a street where there is no pay-and-display parking.” He claimed the machine is just a money spinner as there has not been pay-and-display parking on the street for at least eight years.