A young electrician has been left furious after being forced to pay a £424 fine - for parking outside his own home. Reece Dawson and his family face a nightmare every year when Parklife festival takes place near their house in Prestwich.
As tens of thousands of revellers head to Heaton Park, parking wardens step up patrols in the surrounding area to stop festival goers ditching their cars on residential streets. During the event last June, this resulted in Reece being slapped with the parking notice after leaving his Ford Focus in front of his own house, according to Manchester Evening News.
Despite explaining that he lived at the address, the warden issued the fine regardless as there was no special residents' parking permit on his car. Reece and his family said they had applied for additional permits but did not receive them.
