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Out of line – Playwright says parking wardens have lost the plot
CELEBRATED Barnsbury playwright Nicholas de Jongh has declared war on Islington’s “heavy-handed” parking wardens after being fined £80 for parking outside his home on a white line no longer in use.
The former Evening Standard theatre critic is now refusing to pay the fine following the ticket issued on his vehicle outside his home in Brooksby Street, off Liverpool Road.
Mr de Jongh said: “It is totally unreasonable to fine someone for parking over a line that is no longer functional. I am going to appeal and we’ll see what happens.”
Mr de Jongh is also concerned about large road humps which drive motorists to distraction.
“Taxi drivers say we have the highest road humps in London,” he said. “It’s not surprising that motorists get angry trying to manoeuvre across them.”
Mr de Jongh’s highly praised West End play about homosexual witchhunts in the 1950s, Plague over England, is expected to be made into a film. |
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