Don’t be enforced – look high and low for signs!

10:17am Wednesday 2nd July 2008

I HAVE been enforced. Read and study this parking sign (pictured above) carefully in order to avoid my fate of falling foul of the civil enforcement officers.

Cornwall county council in partnership with Carrick district council and Restormel borough council have produced a civil parking enforcement document on information changes to parking enforcement in Cornwall from May 2008.

Available from the county reference and information library, this document, no doubt produced at great expense, is backed up by the Highway Code book, with reference to my parking problem. It states: "Loading bays are white bays marked with the words Loading only' and a sign with a white on blue trolley symbol." There is no "Loading only" marked on the road, the most obvious place to put it.

I contested this with Carrick council. Their reply was: "The bay in question is reserved for loading at specific times and for blue badge holders at other times, therefore to mark the carriageway as "loading only" would be incorrect and misleading.

Therefore are the Highway Code book and the enforcement document incorrect?

Fellow tax payers of our Carrick council, I urge you, don't become enforced, read the signs, when you have found them. They are located on the walls of Bradford and Bingley and Nationwide, above the parking bay opposite Tesco in Killigrew Street. Do not park unless you are a blue badge holder and its 4am.

Tony Thomas Tregenver Road Falmouth

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