Mark Johannsen, 62, has received fines for parking outside his home due to a delay in processing his parking permit (Picture: Paul Tonge)
A disabled SAS veteran has hit out at ‘jobsworth’ parking officers who keep ticketing him for leaving his car outside his home.
Mark Johannsen, 62, has been given three fixed penalty notices while he was in the process of receiving a parking permit.
The blue badge holder wrongly assumed ‘common sense would prevail’ and the fines would be waived by Nottingham City Council.
But they said Mr Johannsen’s original permit application was lacking vital details, and said this was not fixed until months later despite repeated attempts to contact him.
They said Mr Johannsen was repeatedly asked not to park Range Rover outside his home until the permit had been approved.
This eventually happened on February 5.
But Mr Johannsen insists he should be an exception, due to his disability and his stint fighting for the country.
Mr Johannsen said: ‘It’s ridiculous, it’s functional jobsworths at their worst. There’s nowhere else within walking distance.
‘I have got friends who were killed, it doesn’t seem right when you’re disabled and served your country.
‘I moved in and immediately applied for resident parking. There’s no free parking, it’s either double yellow lines or resident parking.
The blue badge holder wrongly assumed ‘common sense would prevail’ and the fines would be waived (Picture: Paul Tonge)
Nottingham City Council said Mr Johannsen’s original permit application was lacking vital details (Picture: Paul Tonge)
‘Common sense would say you’re outside your home so it’s okay, I thought common sense would prevail. I’ve done nothing wrong.’
Mr Johannsen has not admitted defeat yet.
He said he has no intention of every paying the £70 fines.
His appeal has been rejected by the council. but he plans to take the claim further.
Metro has contacted Nottingham City Council for comment.
In Welwyn Garden City mourners hit out at a ‘jobsworth’ parking warden who tried to ticket a funeral cortège during a service.
The group had gathered to bid a final goodbye to a loved-one at Welwyn Garden City United Reformed Church in Hertfordshire and were getting ready to leave when the parking enforcer turned up.
Funeral director Justin Burgess said he explained to the warden that there was nowhere else they could park near the church and asked him to have ‘a bit of compassion’ for the mourners.
But the inspector was unmoved.
Welwyn Hatfield Council has since said it can, at its discretion, offer parking dispensation to funeral vehicles but not for zigzag lines, which it claims the cortege was parked on.
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