His press release starts out, somewhat strangely:

“Shoppers will lose out on 35 town-centre parking spaces under plans to appease elderly residents, who blasted a decision to treble their annual permits fee to £1,800.

[The dictionary defines “appease” as “to make or preserve peace with a nation, group, or person by giving in to their demands, or to relieve a problem”. Sounds like he thinks the residents are being somewhat unreasonable.]

This is Hugo’s solution (we assume he had some hand in this solution as he has said on his blog that he had words with EDDC before it came out):

“East Devon District Council (EDDC) is now proposing to offer current Mill Street users a special permit for 35 of the bays at the Ham East car park.

This would mean they would not be guaranteed a space, but they could stay as long as they wanted once they found one.

Another option would be to buy a regular permit, which allowed the holder to park for three hours at a time, but required the car to be moved three times a day. “

Only EDDC could come up with such a plan that will satisfy neither residents nor shoppers!

Keep up the good work Hugo!

Source: http://www.hugoswire.org.uk/news/ham-parking-spaces-go-residents