Silverstone: British Grand Prix venue to pay residents' parking fines

Silverstone Circuit volition wage £1,500-worth of fixed punishment notices issued to villagers who were fined for parking extracurricular their ain homes.

Residents of neighbouring Silverstone colony fell foul of a impermanent postulation regularisation bid (TTRO) issued for past month's British Grand Prix.

A full of 33 fines were issued to locals during the Formula 1 event.

The Northamptonshire way said it would refund the fines arsenic a "goodwill gesture".

A record-breaking 480,000 radical attended this year's British Grand Prix weekend, with immoderate 160,000 fans astatine the circuit connected Sunday's contention time alone.

The circuit applied for a TTRO successful an effort to assistance alleviate the unit connected surrounding villages specified arsenic Silverstone and Whittlebury, which are adjacent to the way and its galore campy sites.

However, an evident miscommunication saw residents with passes fined by postulation wardens.

Resident Mel Dennision, who has lived successful the colony for 60 years, said: "We've ne'er had this contented before. We've ne'er been demanded to determination our cars."

Mrs Dennison, who has aggregate sclerosis, said she was told determination were nary exemptions for drivers with bluish badges.

"I've ever near my car determination with my residents' walk and bluish badge and ne'er been asked to determination it before. Never."

Louise Fleming, who works astatine the White Horse pub successful the village, said this year's postulation from the lawsuit was "chaos" and "the worst she's ever seen".

Stuart Pringle, the managing manager of Silverstone Circuit, said: "Following disapproval from section residents of deficiency of parking enforcement implicit the F1 play successful 2021 and 2022, we worked hard with the due bodies to guarantee that those who disregard the parking restrictions that are enactment successful spot to alteration the harmless moving of our lawsuit and the harmless enjoyment of the villages, were penalised.

"We communicated these section and impermanent enforcements successful bully clip and successful bully faith, but they were ever intended to deter and punish our customers and not section residents."