A WINDOW cleaner has abandoned a round in Lewes because of parking restrictions.
Richard Le-Lievre, who runs Town and Country window cleaners, said since the introduction of yellow lines in Houndean Rise there was nowhere for him to park his van and he had been plagued by parking attendants.
As a result he has reluctantly scrapped his round in Houndean Rise.
He told the Express: 'I used to be able to park outside people's houses, do my job quickly and then get away.
'But now because of the yellow lines I can't do that.
'There are hardly ever any parking spaces because everyone parks there to go to the prison or if they're visiting the town.
'The attendants are always in the area and it's not worth my while parking the
re if I'm going to get a £40 ticket.'
MP Norman Baker, who recently called for East Sussex County Council to change the unpopular scheme, said: 'This is another unwelcome and unintended result of the parking scheme.
'A window cleaner has been driven out of the area because he can't do his job.
'This is yet another way the quality of life in Lewes has been affected by this over the top and excessively-policed parking scheme.'
On Monday the county council received a petition calling for the parking scheme to be overhauled from Lewes Chamber of Commerce.
A total of 3,562 people signed the petition which calls for a full and thorough review of the scheme.
Last year a survey of 450 people carried out through the Sussex Express found 77 per cent of people thought the town was worse off with the parking scheme, and 74 per cent of people thought the parking charges were too high.
