Fake parking signs go up to keep the tourist horde at bay
FoR homeowners, few things are more enraging than seeing their streets clogged by visitors’ parked cars.
So there might be some grudging admiration for one resident living in the tourist hotspot of Bath.
The enterprising homeowner has taken matters into his or her own hands by putting up fake ‘residents only’ signs on the road.
eighteen metal ‘Zone F’ signs have been attached to lampposts along two of the affected lanes in the picturesque Somerset city.
The council said there was no such parking zone and vowed to take the ‘illegal’ signs down.
It is not known who put the signs up. But residents say their streets are full of cars taking advantage of the fact parking is unregulated in the area, praising the move because they are so fed up with people leaving vehicles outside of their homes.
Jeff Atherton said: ‘I do believe it would suit the residents to have these. long may it continue.’
Another said: ‘I think they are cleverly done. They look professional.’ The roads are close to Bath Spa University’s Sion Hill campus, which houses an art and design school, which has lead to many students parking their cars there.
Such signs are not illegal to make and can even be purchased online, though it is illegal to put them up.
A council spokesman said: ‘The council did not install these metal signs but is taking action to remove them as they have been illegally placed on the highway.
‘The council maintains a number of residents’ parking zones across Bath but there is not a zone F.’