Should this note on his windscreen have stopped plumber getting a parking fine?

WORCESTER'S parking enforcement regime has been branded "petty and mean" by a self-employed plumber who was handed a fine while parked outside a house where he was working.

Paul Kelly went to an emergency call out at a house in Barry Street in the Arboretum at about 9am on Monday morning, but found himself forced to leave his car on a single yellow line directly outside the house after he was unable to find anywhere else to park in the area - which is frequently extremely congested with parked cars.

Mr Kelly said he knew he was parked in a restricted area - where all waiting is banned between 8.30pm and 5.30pm every day except Sunday - but had left a note in the windscreen hoping it would avoid him getting a ticket.

But when he returned to his car he found he had been given a 70 parking fine.

Mr Kelly said he was disappointed the enforcement officer had taken no notice of the fact he was carrying out urgent plumbing work.

"I was only there for about 15 minutes," he said.

"I made sure the road was clear and a fire engine could get through if it needed to.

"The ticket said I was observed between 9.10am and 9.16am - in those six minutes they could have knocked on the door and asked me to move.

"I used to work in Birmingham and when this sort of thing happened there they would knock on the door

"It's just petty and mean."

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Should this note on his windscreen have stopped plumber getting a parking fine?