Homeowners in a Merseyside Community are “in Despair” as they are forced to pay £ 1,400 to Park Outside their own homes.
Those living in a neighbourhood in Halewood used to pay about £ 300 a year to park on the road. Now they are being forced to pay four times that.
Graham Perrins, 58, who lives on Tavington Road, Told the BBC He is considering Selling his house to the increase which is driving residents to the brink.
He SAID: “It Drives me to despair because I can know what bill i'm going to experience each year. I don't know what i'm actually paying for and I can get Hold of anyone to Explain Properly. “
While the road and neighbouring applewood grove are free, parking spaces are managed by maintenance company first.
The Hampshire-Based Property Management Firm Said that some “Additional Fees Were Mistakenly Charged” but that homeowners would be reimbursed with “credit notes”.
Homeowner Greg Morgan, 39, SAID: “We've all asked repeatedly for copies of the audited account to see what the money is spent on and we kept getting off.”
He said that, like mr Perrins, many on the street are thinking of learning.
Linda eccleston, who has lived on the road for 20 years, would like to know the reasons for the fee increases. She has asked the site manager several times to meet her to discusses it, to no avail.
Sick of their circumstances, residents are now looking in the car park and running it themselves as a collective.
On top of the enormous car park maintenance charges, they are also regularly billed for other things. Scott Traynor, 48, Pays £ 370 a year to park in his own drive because he has to get to get to get to it.
They have also been asked to cover the costs for a nearby block of flats, including cleaning, maintaining the gates, fires equipment and insurance.
A spokesperson for the first person managed the houses and flats as a single development.
But homeowners are only charged for “General Maintenance and Insurance” of the estate including it's car park, the spokesperson said – and not for costs linked to the flats.
They added that homeowners had been charged in the last few year because of rises in property insurance.