Sefton Council said officials have to follow nationally set enforcement guidelines
An elderly and disabled woman claims she has been fined dozens of times just for parking outside her own home. Maria Rodriguez, 76 claims she is forced to park on a small strip of double yellow lines because there is no resident parking permits nor - after five years of requests - a disabled parking bay. Sefton Council said the fines issued to Ms Rodriguez are acting in accordance with national enforcement guidelines around parking rules.
How can this be? 'I have lived here for 23 years and I remember the day that this changed. A machine came to do the yellow lines just on the corner - nowhere else. I had been asking for the disabled bay for many years but they didn't do that.' Maria is registered as having a disability and has mobility issues which impact her independence and ability to move around. One consequence of this is a greater reliance on her car and a need to have parking close to her front door.
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