In its infinite wisdom, the Board of the Management Company are now insisting on numerous documents being enclosed with applications for parking permits. This is despite the lack of any evidence of fraud over the last 12 years. It is not possible to design an on-line application that allows so many documents to be attached to it.

To obtain an application form email: Parking Administration Ask for a permit application and make sure that you include your name and full postal address.

Renewals: Neither the new parking policy or the application form mention renewal of permits (the new permits do have expiry dates) so you will have to ask about this in your email.

The new policy will require about 4,000 pieces of paper being passed around each year. Clearly the Board has never heard of the paperless office or global warming and will, no doubt, result in an increase in the service charge once Parc realise the size of the task.

The new parking policy is worth a read (click Parking Policy 2009). It has its idiosyncrasies - it requires staff in the business premises to park in the Memsaheb car park and the customers of Memsaheb to park outside the business premises (LOL). Residents of Amsterdam Road should enjoy the late night door slamming. Don't worry too much - the owners of Memsaheb probably have a legal right to use the car park for its customers - like much of the new policy, it hasn't been thought through.

Seriously, the Board have fallen into a typical junior management trap. Instead of devising a parking scheme to keep outsiders out they have devised a scheme that is so arduous and complex that the people entitled to park will just engineer around it. Those residents that have studied the 'management of change' will just ignore it and await changes. Let us hope that this happens before the full costs plug in.