{"id":5284,"date":"2019-02-18T12:46:32","date_gmt":"2019-02-18T12:46:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/roadsandtransport\/?page_id=5284"},"modified":"2026-07-01T15:50:59","modified_gmt":"2026-07-01T14:50:59","slug":"report-misuse-of-permits","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/roads-and-transport\/parking\/parking-permits\/report-misuse-of-permits\/","title":{"rendered":"Report misuse of a parking permit in residents&#8217; parking"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Please let us know if you suspect that a permit is being used by a non-resident of your road or zone, or have concerns about:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>a parked vehicle which may not have a digital parking permit for the zone<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>a vehicle displaying a&nbsp; paper permit that expired more than 14 days ago but is still parking in the zone<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>a neighbour using an essential visitor permit for reasons other than a family member providing child care or supporting an elderly or disabled resident to live independently in their own home<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>a contractor&#8217;s permit being used to park outside the permit holders own home, in addition to their permit allocation for their address<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>a contractor&#8217;s permit being used primarily to commute to and park at a job site whilst working at a nearby address<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>two valid permits for different zones are displayed in one car<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>being approached by someone asking to buy any unused permit allocation for your address.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Complete our <a href=\"https:\/\/webforms.devon.gov.uk\/roads-and-transport\/report-misuse-of-permits\/\" rel=\"noopener\">online form<\/a> as fully as possible to tell us about it<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We will make enquiries with the named permit holder, and if your concerns or suspicions prove to be true, they will likely receive a parking fine and we will cancel the permit. The source of our information will not be shared with anyone under investigation. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Please allow up to four weeks from the date of completion for our investigations process to be completed. We&#8217;re sorry, but GDPR regulations may mean we cannot share with you the outcome of an investigation. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Please let us know if you suspect that a permit is being used by a non-resident of your road or zone, or have concerns about: Complete our online form as fully as possible to tell us about it. We will make enquiries with the named permit holder, and if your concerns or suspicions prove to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"parent":16,"menu_order":9,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"class_list":["post-5284","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-08-31 02:16:23","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/roads-and-transport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5284","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/roads-and-transport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/roads-and-transport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/roads-and-transport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/roads-and-transport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5284"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/roads-and-transport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5284\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26907,"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/roads-and-transport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5284\/revisions\/26907"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/roads-and-transport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/16"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/roads-and-transport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5284"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}