Grove Park fine value tops £26 million
The following article claims this is the total amount of fines issued for the Grove Park restrictions.https://www.msn.com/en-za/news/world/council-accused-of-targeting-school-run-parents-after-issuing-26m-in-ltn-fines/ar-BB1jdIH3I found the angle taken in this report quite perplexing. The school in the area is a secondary school and relatively few parents drive their children to school and those that do are aware of the restriction.Generally my impression is that people living in the area, now that exemptions have been widened, are only mildly put out by the restrictions and the occasional annoyance is off set by the reduced traffic. However, the figure in this article that caused my jaw to drop was the number of cases in which bailiffs had been used. It totals 13,000 and the council had to pause sending out bailiffs because they didn't have the capacity to handle the volume.This represents 13,000 cases of individual misery and people whose lives have got into such a state that they didn't have the means to pay a £130 fine. Now they have burly men knocking on their doors to take away their possessions. For Cllr Dunne to suggest this is okay because 88% of people fined aren't locals shows a loss of perspective as the numbers suggest at least 1,000 local people have had the bailiffs set on them. It is very probable that we aren't hearing much about this despite the huge scale because they are ashamed of what has happened to them.
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