DESPITE assurances no parking signs would be taken down, weeks later they are still causing confusion on a Petersfield road.

Hampshire County Council says they were put up on lampposts in Bedford Road without permission.

The authority also says that repeated assurances they would be taken down haven’t been met.

Now it is set to insist that Capital 2 Coast private parking enforcement contractors remove them.

Simon Wilson, of the council’s highways department told the Post the council would be contacting the firm to find out why this hadn’t been done.

The signs, which threaten a £100 fine for not displaying a valid ticket or permit, were supposed to go up in the private Rotherbrook Court business park off Bedford Road.

Director of Holloway, Iliffe and Mitchell, which manages the business park, Stuart Mitchell said: “They were supposed to stop lorries parking and blocking the private road into Rotherbrook Court, not mess up the parking on Bedford Road.

“We have asked several times for them to be moved to the correct place, but they haven’t been, it is all rather frustrating.”

The Post reported on October 7 that Bedford Road businesses had complained to the council about the signs, and Capital 2 Coast promised they would be taken down.

A week later staff at Petersfield Motor Company saw a man taking some of the signs down, but not all of them.

Branch manager at Beaver Tool Hire Mark Turner said: “They’re supposed to have removed them and put them in the right place.”

Director of Capital 2 CoastGavin Price said: “It was just an admin error really, we haven’t enforced anything there yet.

“We’re going to put it right as soon as possible, hopefully by next week.”