RESIDENTS slapped with fines for parking on the pavement outside their homes have been told by a senior councillor they will not have to pay up.
In the last few weeks 11 fines have been handed out to people living in a row of terraced houses on Spark Lane at Mapplewell.
Their homes front onto a stretch of the road which has a single yellow line restriction - covering both the road and the pavement - and prevents parking between 8am and 6pm.
But cabinet member Coun Roy Miller, who represents the area, says they should never have been stung because ‘some years ago’ he organised for residents to be able to park on the extra wide pavement outside their homes as there is nowhere else for them to go.
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