A shop owner is fed up with a tanker that’s been “illegally parked” outside his store for months, causing him a headache.
Staff at Simons Electrical, in Harrow, in London, have told Harrow Council about the lorries parking on the road where they shouldn’t be. There are signs saying big lorries can’t stay there all night, but the shop says they’re left there for ages.
One tanker has been there for four months and has numerous fines, as reports My London.
A spokesperson for the wholesaler told the Local Democracy Reporting Service (LDRS), the council has given the tanker lots of parking tickets but hasn’t taken it away.
They said: “They are putting tickets on it but they do nothing. They say they can’t do anything but I don’t believe that. It’s illegal to leave it there overnight and apparently they don’t have a pound to take it away. It’s just disgraceful.”
Harrow Council has put up signs along the road outlining the overnight parking prohibition but the shop called it “a nonsense” if nothing is done when drivers flout the rules.
The local authority has already had to fix the pavements once because the lorries “destroyed them”, according to the shop’s spokesperson.
They told the LDRS that the situation has “slightly improved” since a particularly large lorry left one evening but the tanker is still there.
They said: “Sometimes they’re here for a week, sometimes a few days.”
They said: “We see people going in the cabs but there’s nothing you can do, they just look at you. In this day and age you don’t want to get into too much confrontation. It’s been going on for a long time.
“It’s not just since October, it was before that too. I’m absolutely sick to death of it […], it drives you mad.”
The owners of the lorries remain unknown. Harrow Council was approached by LDRS for a comment.
