I was slapped with a fine after a no-parking zone was painted AROUND my car by ‘nuisance’ council

AN designer was slapped with a good aft assembly workers painted a no-parking portion astir his car.

Cezary Bednarski, 72, had returned location from a 10-day travel to find the new e-bike bay extracurricular his home.

He'd been successful Portugal connected business erstwhile his neighbour called to archer him that he'd been fined.

Mr Bednarski claimed Kensington and Chelsea Council unit painted the caller bay earlier issuing him with a parking summons - which was printed minutes earlier the caller changes came into force.

"I near astatine 4 successful the greeting 1 time and came backmost astatine midnight 10 days aboriginal and our neighbour sent maine a representation showing my car successful the mediate of a rhythm bay, ticketed. I conscionable couldn't judge my eyes," helium told My London.

Kensington and Chelsea Council accidental that residents were warned astir the caller motorcycle bay earlier it was installed.

The pensioner's woes didn't halt determination - helium claims his beingness has been turned into a "nightmare" since the rental e-bike bay was added to the thoroughfare successful September 2024.

Cezary told the work that helium and his household person suffered from sleepless nights aft being woken up by drunk radical collecting and dropping disconnected the Lime Bikes.

He and his woman Claudia, 59, said that the country has go a "little bar", wherever boozed-up bikers loiter, chatting loudly with friends whilst resting their drinks connected the wall.

"Quite often we person sound going connected for adjacent an hour. The kids aftermath up. Sometimes the cyclists driblet their garbage down successful the basement," helium added.

Claudia, who gets acceptable for enactment astatine 6.30am, says she often has "little oregon nary sleep".

She said the mates are dreading the spring and summer erstwhile they program to slumber with their windows open.

The mates importune they wouldn't caput if the sound is erstwhile a week, but the disruption unfolds each night.

The domino effect of the bikes falling implicit is besides a regular occurrence for Cezary.

Aswell arsenic dealing with the sound from the cyclists, the household says the workers who work the bikes are conscionable arsenic annoying.

He accused them of throwing utilized e-bike batteries successful the van, which adds to the ongoing sound pollution.

Cezary designed his West London location himself and has lived determination for 15 years.

The Bednarskis aren't the lone residents narked by the noise.

Jean-Christophe Puget, 41, and his children aged 12 and 15 are woken up by the motorcycle clatter "almost each night".

His surviving country is astatine basement level and is straight beside the rental e-bike stand.

Jean-Christophe wakes up each time astatine 2am to spell to enactment arsenic a baker and often has to archer revellers to "calm down".

Cllr Cem Kemahli, pb subordinate for readying and spot astatine Westminster and Chelsea Council, said: "We consulted residents astir the determination of parking bays thoroughly, via our consultation web hub, signage and letters.

"We are regularly successful interaction with providers to marque definite they negociate bays decently and we’ll beryllium asking Lime and Forest to debar picking up and dropping disconnected bikes astatine this bay betwixt 11pm and 6am to assistance support disruption for section residents to a minimum.”

“E-bikes are a bully enactment for radical to get astir quickly, cheaply and sustainably but e-bike rental providers person mostly failed to negociate their work good and see pedestrians and residents successful their concern model.

"You spot it successful different parts of London wherever bikes are littered connected each pavement.

"We’re doing everything we tin to antagonistic their mismanagement ourselves, which is wherefore we introduced parking bays to support our pavements clear."

A Lime spokesperson said: "Lime is playing a cardinal relation successful encouraging cycling crossed London, helping to amended our aerial quality, trim congestion and make a much accessible and greener city.

"We recognise that 1 of the astir important challenges facing our manufacture is the contented of overcrowded parking bays, peculiarly successful areas wherever request for e-bikes exceeds the abstraction made disposable for parking.

“We are moving to code this contented successful Kensington by enforcing mandatory parking, improving our effect clip to immoderate issues raised, and bolstering our Lime Parking Patrol, a dedicated squad who tidy misparked bikes and overcrowded bays.

"There is simply a wide request for much designated parking locations, and we are anxious to enactment successful concern with the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea to find much places for cyclists to park.

"This would not lone beforehand sustainable question but make a much organised and tidy parking solution for the community.”