Mr Kinloch received a parking ticket in November while unloading goods from his van to his premises on Brook Street, despite being parked in a loading bay outside Woolworths, where there were no signs warning of parking restrictions.

“I called the council’s parking department and was told the normal rules were not being enforced in that area because they were waiting on new signs. A parking attendant said the same thing.”

However, in a written response to Mr Kinloch’s complaint, Dundee City Council’s planning and transportation department said the fine was issued because double yellow lines were clearly visible and new legislation meant signs were no longer required warning that waiting is prohibited on them at all times. Why are there yellow lines running through a loading bay at all?

“It doesn’t make any sense,” said Mr Kinloch. “A little bit of common sense would go a long way.

“It’s a nonsense when you’re running a business and being penalised at the same time.”

Mr Kinloch is now appealing against the fine and has vowed to take it all the way to an independent adjudicator in an attempt to have it quashed. In response to Mr Kinloch’s claims, a spokesman for Dundee City Council said, “Mr Kinloch’s appeal is going through the formal process and a response will be given to him in writing within four to five weeks.

“If an error has been made then that, along with any other information surrounding the circumstances of the incident, will be taken into account.”