Family whose five cars won’t fit on their drive complain at having to pay parking fees
Changes to parking rules has left Angela with a headache (Picture: Hampshire Live/BPM Media)

A Hampshire family is locked in a row with the local council over how to park their vast fleet of cars.

Angela Hammond lives in Aldershot with her husband, her two daughters and two elderly parents – and they own five cars between them.

Only three of the vehicles fit on their drive and the introduction of 24-hour permit parking in March last year left them scratching their heads about where to leave the other two.

Angela secured a disabled bay outside their St George’s Road home for her elderly father, but one of her daughters has been unable to park there ever since.

She’s currently paying £255 a year in visitor parking tickets – despite council guidance that they’re for visitors only – and this only covers her for 204 days of the year.

The rest of the time she’s parking in Aldershot Railway Station car park at £5.50 per day.

Angela said: ‘Once you’ve bought your limit for the year, you can’t buy any more, which means you’re not allowed visitors.

‘So on Christmas Day my family won’t be able to visit because we will have no visitor permits left.’

GL ALDERSHOT: 39 St Georges Road to meet Angela Hammond of St. Georges Road, Aldershot - 24 hour parking permit restrictions have been installed outside their home without warning. Her family has a driveway but they have five cars due to her parents living with them in an annexe, so need to use the street and council are refusing to issue the family a permit so they have to pay ??5.50 per day in parking. GL
She lives in a house in Aldershot with six adults – five of them drivers (Picture: Hampshire Live/BPM Media)

She added: ‘I have asked the council on numerous occasions if we can buy an annual permit, which I am more than happy to do, but they’ve said no.

‘I’ve reached the point now where I’m quite tempted to park the car outside the house and keep getting tickets until they pay attention.’

Rushmoor Borough Council said households with off-road parking cannot buy residents’ parking permits under its policy.

Councillor Maurice Sheehanm said: ‘Residents can buy up to 204 visitor parking sessions over a 12-month period.

‘The purpose of the scheme is to help residents’ visitors park, and they shouldn’t be used to obtain permits for additional vehicles for a household, which some residents were doing when using the previous system.’

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