Furious sticker vigilante leaves fake foul-mouthed tickets on cars to tell motorists they ‘parked like a ***’ amid row over drivers abandoning their vehicles in residential areas
- The crude stickers were left on cars parked in Ashton Gate, Bristol, on Monday
- It comes amid an ongoing row over drivers parking in the area on match days
An irate vigilante leaves rude fake parking tickets on cars parked along residential streets.
The notices had previously been pasted on the windscreens of vehicles parked in Ashton Gate, Bristol a football match between Bristol City and Middlesbrough on Monday, which was attended by 21,000 fans.
The stickers read, “You parked like a *** – don’t do it again.” Warning. The person who ‘parked’ this vehicle doesn’t care about other people, the selfish bastard’.
It comes after an anonymous Twitter account was set up at the start of the season to highlight the worst cases of poor parking in the area, with growing pressure on Bristol City Council to address the issue.
Labor councilor Mark Bradshaw also last month urged the council to crack down on poor parking, telling police to ‘enforce on match days’.
The fake tickets were stuck to the windscreens of cars parked in Ashton Gate, Bristol, for a football match between Bristol City and Middlesbrough on Monday this week, which was attended by 21,000 fans
The stickers read, “You parked like a *** – don’t do it again.” Warning. The person who ‘parked’ this vehicle doesn’t care about other people, the selfish bastard’
Since the 2010 redevelopment of Ashton Gate Stadium, there has been a standoff between Ashton Gate and Bristol City Council over who should pay for a matchday parking scheme.
At the time, there was a condition that the company overseeing Bristol City F.C. would set up and pay for a matchday parking scheme if the club were promoted to the Premier League or if three out of five successive matches saw more than 25,000 fans. .
But the plan faltered after the Covid pandemic saw stadium attendance drop and pressure from residents eased.
In an effort to assuage residents’ anger, the stadium’s new “Sporting Quarter” project will build a 536-space multi-story parking garage nearby, alongside a new 5,000-capacity indoor sports and convention center. , a 232-room hotel, 125 flats, gym, museum and offices.
Bristol City Council granted planning permission for the Sporting Quarter, but left issues such as the knock-on effect on resident parking to be the subject of a series of planning conditions to be negotiated in negotiations between the stadium bosses and the council’s planning officers.
Since the 2010 redevelopment of Ashton Gate Stadium, there has been a standoff between Ashton Gate and Bristol City Council over who should pay for a matchday parking scheme.
At the time there was a condition that the company overseeing Bristol City F.C. would set up and pay for a matchday parking scheme if the club were promoted to the Premier League or successive matches saw crowds in excess of 25,000 fans.
When planning officials produced their report recommending that the Sporting Quarter receive planning permission in October 2022, they said: ‘Members are informed that negotiations are currently underway between parties regarding a variation of this existing S106 requirement for Ashton Gate Stage.
It is proposed that this would require an additional clause to also include SCC attendance figures if an event at the SCC coincides with an event at the stadium and the combined total attendance triggers Ashton Gate Limited’s current S106 obligation.
‘Such a planning obligation is also required on this point for the proposed development. Discussions are currently taking place on the exact details and wording of both commitments, but at the time of writing this report have not yet been agreed and finalized
In principle, these obligations are considered to provide adequate protection against any unacceptable additional impact on local parking problems that may arise from the additional vehicle movements associated with the proposed SCC development and which would negate the immediate need for a resident parking scheme.
“Members are advised that the legal opinion given to the officers on this matter indicates that this is in principle a viable solution, but that it cannot be confirmed at this stage.”
