PAY AND DISMAY

FURIOUS RESIDENTS FORCED TO PAY £2,250 A YEAR TO PARK NEXT TO THEIR CITY CENTRE HOMES

- ETHAN DAVIES

DRIVERS who have forked out £1,250 to park next to their city centre homes have now been hit by a ‘massive’ £1,000 price hike. 

Residents living in the Novella building, on the New Bailey estate in Salford, claim that they ‘were sold’ their flats on the premise of having a half-price ‘residents’ permit’ to park in the NCP car park next door. But now some say the huge hike in the annual cost to park their cars mean they are having to think of selling their vehicles.

And this comes despite some claiming that their cars have been broken into – with one resident alleging they were told all but two of the CCTV cameras in the multistorey car park were ‘fake’. One resident has told the M.E.N. they ‘are being hit from both sides’.

“There’s a residents’ permit scheme for certain postcodes across the city, it’s half price compared to a workers’ permit. I emailed to renew mine and they came back and said it’s been scrapped,” explained Chris, who declined to provide his surname.