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  Since we are having a moan about parking here's mine. We had guests over the Christmas period. One of our guests had parked outside my house which is an 'up to two hours' for anyone else but Residents Parking Permit Zone otherwise.
  
  I had checked the DDC website which stated :-
  
  Free on-street parking
  
  All other parking restrictions, like yellow lines will continue to be enforced throughout the district
  
  There is no 'yellow line' outside my house. On 30/12/16 the car was given a 'parking ticket' along with half the cars in the street!
  
  Needless to say I appealed as follows:-
  
  Dear Sir,
  
  I was surprised to find that one of our guests had a parking ticket attached to his car whilst parked outside Marlinspike Hall this morning.
  
  I had checked the DDC website for the parking restrictions and it reads as follows:-
  
  
  · Free on-street parking
  
  · All other parking restrictions, like yellow lines will continue to be enforced throughout the district
  
  Outside our house there is no yellow line . Furthermore since the DDC website made no comment that spaces in resident's parking areas, where there is no yellow line but there is normally a 2 hour restriction were to be enforced, I took it that these spaces would be defined as 'free on-street' parking.
  
  Had I known otherwise the car would have been parked in one of the suspended pay parking spaces on the opposite side of the street.
  
  I have tried my best to conform to restrictions as outlined on the DDC web-page but would suggest that the information there is at best ambiguous and at worse misleading.
  
  Might I suggest that next time parking restrictions are suspended you print something like 'all other parking restrictions, like yellow lines and restricted parking in such as resident parking zones'.
  
  I would be grateful to be contacted asap to be informed that the penalty charge is not being pursued.
  
  The vehicle has now been moved.
  
  The appeal was turned down and I ended up paying my guest's £25 fine. The annoying thing is that had he parked on the other side of the road where one normally has to buy a ticket he could have parked for free over the whole period.
  
  That's life. My stupid. Hopefully this years announcement of 'free parking' in the district will be less ambiguous? Doh!

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