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Our seaside town has become the ‘Wild West' – now we're being charged £70 to park outside our OWN homes
LOCALS have slammed plans to install parking meters that would see them forced to pay £70 to park outside their homes.
Residents of Sea Cliff, Bournemouth, slammed the local authority after the plans were announced.
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A recent spate of "Wild West" parking incidents prompted the plans
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Tourists parked their cars on grass verges and roudnabouts
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The meters would be installed along roads within 0.6 miles of the seafront with residents living in
Plans were revealed after a spree of parking incidents saw tourists leave cars on grass verges, pavements and
Local council officials have claimed that the money generated by the new parking meters will be used to pay for tow trucks to remove illegally
Most streets in the town currently have paid parking with motorists forced to cough up some cash to leave their cars in the town centre.
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Furious locals accused the council of hypocrisy after it sold off two seafront car parks.
Residents of the small town were again left furious after the local authority previously caused mayhem with extensive roadworks.
Laying nearly 50 miles of
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Bournemouth, Christchurch and Pool Council has declared a climate emergency with locals in Sea Cliff slamming them for "attacking"
Now plans for the new parking meters have caused even more outrage.
Michael McIntyre remonstrates at parking warden's as his car is being towed away for parking in a restricted bay
The scheme has been branded "stupid" by Peter Schroeder, the chairman of the Branksome Park Residents Association.
He told
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"We say no to residents paying to park their own cars on their own streets.
'We already have some of the highest
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Residents have been left furious by the proposal
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The council was accused of hypocrisy after recently closing two car parks
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Locals say the plan to install parking meters wont work
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'The council should give much stiffer penalties to those who do illegally park. £50 is probably nothing to them. If it was £1,000 they would think twice.'
The
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The council has said that more than 10 million visitors come to the
Last weekend alone there were more than 1,000 tickets handed out to illegally parked cars in Bournemouth.
The Sun has contacted Bournemouth Christchurch and Pool Council for comment.
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