Parking in East Village is managed by Sippi, a private permit enforcement operator contracted by the estate. Residents with permit entitlements apply, renew, and appeal through Sippi's online portal. When that process fails - renewals left in limbo, permit records that go missing, or Penalty Charge Notices issued while a permit is active - it costs residents real money and time.

The other half of the job is enforcement. When somebody parks in a resident's allocated bay and no ticket is issued and nothing is moved, the resident is left with nowhere to park and no way to resolve it - a permit that entitles you to a space is worth nothing if the space is occupied and unenforced. That counts here too.

This campaign builds a shared, formal record of both kinds of failure so they can no longer be dismissed as one-off complaints. Every report adds to the evidence.

Why we're collecting this

We're building a formal picture of Sippi's parking failures in East Village. Individual submissions are never published or shared. The dataset is anonymised, and the campaign moves in two stages:

  • At 25 responses, we publish an anonymised summary.
  • At 75 responses - the point at which a landlord can no longer treat complaints as isolated, and roughly one for every ten estimated permit holders - we submit the full dataset formally to EVML, Sippi, Nate Higgins (ward councillor), and Uma Kumaran MP for Stratford and Bow.

If someone is parked in your bay

Report it to Sippi first - that is the route that exists, and a report they ignore is stronger evidence than one never made. Then log it here, whatever they did or didn't do. We ask which car park or street, never which bay: an allocated bay identifies a household, so we don't collect one.

If you have a PCN

If you receive a Penalty Charge Notice you believe is incorrect, you have the right to appeal first to Sippi and then to POPLA, the independent adjudicator. Do not pay a PCN you intend to appeal - payment is taken as acceptance.

Report an issue

The live tracker and the reporting form now live in the Sippi parking tracker app. There you can see where the campaign has reached and add your own report in a couple of minutes.