SUMNER STREET CONVENES KERBSIDE TRIBUNAL AFTER TRADIE'S HILUX BLOCKS THREE DRIVEWAYS
Eight residents, two folding chairs, one ute. The ute won, briefly.
A white Hilux belonging to a tradesman nobody on Heberden Ave could name spent four hours on Tuesday blocking three driveways, prompting what one resident called "a meeting" and what I'd call a sad huddle by the recycling bins.
The ute sat across the driveways of numbers 14, 16 and 18 from 11am. By 1pm a folding chair had appeared. By 2pm there were two chairs and a thermos. My late husband Gerald would have had the thing shifted before smoko.
Dianne Pleasance, 71, of number 16, said she'd knocked on the ute window. "I could see his hi-vis and a pie wrapper. No tradesman. I left a note. Then I left a second note. The second one wasn't polite."
Hamish Corbett from number 20 said he'd photographed the rego and was "prepared to escalate", though he didn't say to whom. A woman across the road suggested the council. Another suggested a tow truck. Dianne suggested "a brick, frankly", at which point the tribunal adjourned for tea.
A Christchurch City Council spokesperson said parking enforcement in Sumner was "complaint-driven". Asked which number to call, they said they'd get back to us. They have not.
The tradesman returned at 3.15pm with a length of skirting board and a Powerade, moved the ute without a word, and drove off. Both notes were still under the wiper. Dianne has kept them.
The ute sat across the driveways of numbers 14, 16 and 18 from 11am. By 1pm a folding chair had appeared. By 2pm there were two chairs and a thermos. My late husband Gerald would have had the thing shifted before smoko.
Dianne Pleasance, 71, of number 16, said she'd knocked on the ute window. "I could see his hi-vis and a pie wrapper. No tradesman. I left a note. Then I left a second note. The second one wasn't polite."
Hamish Corbett from number 20 said he'd photographed the rego and was "prepared to escalate", though he didn't say to whom. A woman across the road suggested the council. Another suggested a tow truck. Dianne suggested "a brick, frankly", at which point the tribunal adjourned for tea.
A Christchurch City Council spokesperson said parking enforcement in Sumner was "complaint-driven". Asked which number to call, they said they'd get back to us. They have not.
The tradesman returned at 3.15pm with a length of skirting board and a Powerade, moved the ute without a word, and drove off. Both notes were still under the wiper. Dianne has kept them.