Resident Parking Permits
Nov. 5th, 2020 05:32 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
jazzy_daveWe have been waiting for more than a year for residents' parking to be introduced in our area. A welcome development given the number of motorists who treat our road as a free carpark making it increasingly difficult for residents to park anywhere near their home - me included. The scheme is due to start on 1st December 2020.
Applications for permits must be completed on line and I have just spent an exhausting hour or so doing just that. In order to verify residency one is required to upload two proofs of residency dated within the last three months. One of these proofs must be your motor insurance document. Hmmm. My policy is annual and is valid 28th November 2019 to 28th November 2020. So, I cannot comply with the three month rule for that particular document! There must be many more in the same boat... I am sure there will be many elderly folk completely flummoxed with this online application process.
Telephone help line? Minimum 30 minute wait - minimum. All I could do was upload my current certificate of insurance and hope for the best, having paid the £100 annual fee. I now have to wait for seven working days to hear if my application has been successful. And without a parking permit I will not be allowed to park in my zone, which covers a significant chunk of residential Brighton.
It is all very frustrating!
Applications for permits must be completed on line and I have just spent an exhausting hour or so doing just that. In order to verify residency one is required to upload two proofs of residency dated within the last three months. One of these proofs must be your motor insurance document. Hmmm. My policy is annual and is valid 28th November 2019 to 28th November 2020. So, I cannot comply with the three month rule for that particular document! There must be many more in the same boat... I am sure there will be many elderly folk completely flummoxed with this online application process.
Telephone help line? Minimum 30 minute wait - minimum. All I could do was upload my current certificate of insurance and hope for the best, having paid the £100 annual fee. I now have to wait for seven working days to hear if my application has been successful. And without a parking permit I will not be allowed to park in my zone, which covers a significant chunk of residential Brighton.
It is all very frustrating!
![[community profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/community.png){kind=small}