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A man who is in self-isolation due to the Coronavirus pandemic, as per the government guidance, has been left feeling helpless as he has had to watch traffic wardens repeatedly issue parking tickets to his cars parked outside his own home.

Peter Pratt was sent home from work after displaying symptoms of the infection including a sore throat and therefore is unable to leave his house. He has claimed his personal and work cars have now collectively been issued with four parking fines.

However when he confronted the traffic wardens, he claims that they responded: ‘We don’t care. We’re just doing our jobs.’



He would usually collect visitor parking permits from his library because the council had not yet delivered his residents’ permit.


Peter now owes £200 in fines (Picture: Peter Pratt/SWNS)

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But he could no longer do this after his isolation began last Tuesday, and he added that nobody was available to collect the permits on his behalf, so he placed notes on his windscreens explaining his situations – but apparantely wardens have taken no notice.

The next day a traffic warden slapped a parking ticket on his car and ignored the sick man as he pleaded with him from his doorstep.

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He filmed the incident on his smartphone in order to gather evidence to support his appeal.

Peter said: ‘I would normally have been out there swearing at them a lot more than I was. You just think they would use a bit of common sense.’

‘I had been trying to keep an eye on it. On the first day, I saw a traffic warden put one on my car, I tried to explain through my window that I’m in self-isolation, and they just said “Oh well, we don’t care. We are just here to do our jobs.”‘

Peter called the council but added that he was told that he should have someone who can collect his permits for him.

Peter’s car is parked outside his home in Kent (Picture: Peter Pratt/SWNS)

His fines currently total £200 and he is appealing all four of them. He explained: ‘I’m worried about my finances because I’m on statutory sick pay and my salary will be cut by 20 per cent for the next three months.

‘Now I’m hoping that the council make the right decision and accept my appeals. To pay £200 in fines right now would be a travesty.’

Medway Council has now said it will focus on more serious parking offences during the Coronavirus crisis.

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A council spokesperson said: ‘We understand that due to the Coronavirus (COVID-19) there may be less parking available on Medway’s residential roads as more people are at home with their vehicles.



‘However, it is essential that we maintain safe roads and pavements for pedestrians and other motorists.

‘We will be now concentrating our parking enforcement on vehicles which are parked in a dangerous or inconsiderate manner.’

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