Bexley council has something of a reputation for paying scant regard to the
laws of the land as we have seen with their attitude to
bus lanes and
parking regulations and sometimes when it is
drawn to their attention they resort to the childish taunt of ‘see you in
court’.
Soon after I was complaining about some parking bays being only 170 cm. wide
and not big enough to get my Rover 45 into another Bexley resident. Mark Jeffery
of Sidcup was having similar but far worse problems in Footscray Lane where the
bays were less than 160 cm wide. He was rewarded with £1,000’s worth
of parking tickets for not being fully parked in a bay. They were eventually
written off presumably because Bexley council knew that was one that they would
lose in court, the minimum width recommendation being 180 cm, but they refused to
redraw the bays and so the problem went on and on. Making peoples’ lives a
misery is something Bexley council is truly expert at doing. Some of their
employees are totally evil and barely human.
The report is still available on the
News Shopper website.
More recently I reported some parking bays which I noted were not wide enough to
accommodate a Ford Ka and met with a much more favourable response.
Blog 28 February 2009.