to be annoyed at having to pay council £15 to park outside my own house

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permit used to be free but not they want £15 per year to park my (only) car on the road, which doesn't even belong to them but county council

am livid as out of work at the moment and don't need this extra charge

YABU. That sounds very cheap to me.

how much do you pay?

Will it stop your street being used by lots of non-residents?

YABU. It's a bargain as the alternative is the spaces all being full of shoppers and commuters ad you having nowhere at all to park. I imagine £15 barely covers the admin costs.
Whether the road is owned by district or county council is completely irrelevant.

Our PP is £79 per year, and we still often don't get a space. Tis annoying, but less so than a ticket every week would be I suppose...

no my street is always empty - no-one uses it apart from us residents, there are always places to park, and it used to be free

That is pretty shit.

YABVU

You don't own the road outside your house and have no divine right to park there.

15sovs is bloody cheap for a parking permit too.

In Edinburgh it is 170 quid a year.

If you don't want to pay park in a different street.

YANBU to be annoyed, but unfortunately as permit prices go it is very, very cheap (hence the YABU responses which I think are responding to the amount not the situation if you see what I mean). It seems very off to put in permits if your road is seldom over-parked - it makes me think they are just trying to make money.

Sorry, it is rotten for you.

YANBU to be annoyed at having to pay when you didn't used to. But it is cheap for a permit.

£15 is cheap for resident's parking. Your council may offer a free permit if you're out of work/claiming benefits/low income, you may have to ask though, they probably won't advertise it.

ok i abu but it still irks me that it used to be free and now isn't - they didn't write to tell us of the increase and the road is empty most of the time. would understand if i lived in a big town but really it's a small place.

we pay for extra cars and permits for visitors already, suppose they have also gone up

might just park on the grass in my front garden instead

Are you not aware of the council cuts? Austerity measures, job losses, cuts to services across the board? A charge of £15 is perfectly reasonable given the economic climate we are in.

YABU. £15 is a bargain. I'd have their hand off. Did you mean £150?

You wouldn't even notice £15 going out over a year.

Stop moaning about £15

its £80 here, plus £10 for a book of visitors permits

Ours is £80 a year and then £2 every time a visitor wants to park.

£15 is a bargain.

amazed some pay so much, are your roads always really busy, ours is dead, only about four cars and parking for 20

Our council was clever/sneaky.

They started permit parking in the roads nearest the town centre. So all who had parked there but didnt live there parked in very quiet surrounding roads. Which caused a parking problem.

The answer to this problem? Charge residents for parking in their normally quiet roads. Its a ripple effect which has led to most of Kingston being permit only

We pay over £120 a year to park. Bloody London, where a garage costs as much as a house.

It is probably only quiet because the council operate and enforce a permit system: if your street was de-permited there's a chance it would become a haven for commuters and shoppers.

15 quid for hassle free parking seems v.cheap.

People have to buy permits to park on their own street?!

I've never lived in one! I didn't realise residents had to pay! Lol

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£100 a year
Road usually pretty quiet
When I left car outside (other car without a permit) for 2 mins taking DD in for a wee, we got a ticket
The letter that said I would have to pay it explained in great and patronising detail that they had to enforce it because residents like teh zones and they pay a lot of money and they want it enforced to the max. Given that I had explained that a. i had a permit on other car and b. it was outside my house an c. it was 2 mins for a child wee, and that I was one of those very permit holders they were talking about, my only conclusion was that they were taking the piss.

Our council leader has said quite openly that they use parking as revenue make it as expensive as they can on that basis.

I don't think you're being unreasonable at all. I think it's a cheek & just because others pay more doesn't make it right that you, as a resident, have to pay.

I have also been banned from buying visitors vouchers
Because I bought a lot last year when we had builders in a lot
And they have a max but I didn't know
And they didn't inform me that I was about to exceed it
So they sold me the vouchers, and then when I rang for more they said I had broken the rules and would be banned from buying any more for a few years. Irrepective of the fact they had happily sold them to me in the first place. They implied that I had been up to no good in some way but didn't want to say what.

Bastards.