@JonathanH

In a simple world based on someone saying "please can I have a permit" and the council sending them a sticker, it would be easy and fine. The reality is that people steal other people's identities, people move out halfway through a permit period and want money back, own two cars, have visitors who want to park in the area, change cars, move within the same parking area and want to transfer their permit etc etc and someone (the council) needs to manage that. This management is not cheap. Would the number of parking spaces affected multiplied by the annual cost, pay for one person's salary to manage? I doubt it.

The question is, should the rest of us pay for a system that will benefit some people (in this case Devonshire Rd residents), and the council has to decide if it has the money to spend helping those people.

I don't own a car, and if asked, based on the costs that would come out of my council tax I'd probably think it was a waste of money that would be better spent on schools, local policing etc..

Just my 2p.