Bury Council's Groundhog Day...another Parking fiasco

It was some 18 months ago that Roger MacArthur exposed the illegality of his Local Authority's Penalty Charge Notices with a landmark ruling by the National Parking Adjudication Service.
You think that they would have regarded that as a shot across the proverbial but it seems not.
Back before the adjudicator with the tune from Britney Spears " Whoops I did it again" playing in the background they have just stepped in another elephant trap.

It looks like they dropped a clanger when they failed to correctly transpose their Off Street Parking Places Traffic Regulation Order. They had no power to enforce under decriminalised powers.

Read the latest nightmare from Bury here as reported in the Bury Times.

You would think that by now lessons would have been learned...but no. The statement below from the Council beggars belief.

Commenting on the latest case, a spokesman for Bury Council said: "Advice to date suggests that we should still enforce the Orders while the decision and the possible implications are being discussed."

I will drop in a request to the Council shortly. In Sunderland similar arrogance has resulted in staff rationalisation and a Department unable to function. Last week's Local government newspaper had five job vacancies for the department.
I am sure that there will a number of officials about to be Bury'd in other councils.