Local Tom Beardmore, who took the picture, said: ‘I walked past it and did a double-take, I just stared at it for a moment or two to take it in.
Marketing planner Mr Beardmore, 29, said he understood why people battle to keep bits of greenery in their neighbourhoods. but added: ‘I would strongly debate why the council felt the sign was an appropriate use of resources. It’s between two drives so there’s no way anyone could fit a car in there.’
A spokesman said: ‘The sign was to remind motorists it is illegal to park on the footway and is designed to deter indiscriminate parking.’
Council leader Stephen Alambritis admitted: ‘A sign on a piece of grass so small doesn’t make sense.’
Elsewhere, bosses at a construction site want motorists to stick to a nine-and-a-half mph speed limit.
The notice at the site in Newcastle has bemused workers and people living nearby.
One said: ‘Most diggers don’t have speedometers so you don’t know how fast you’re going. It would be very hard to judge.’
But project manager Richard Hancock, for operator Galliford Try, explained: ‘If you put a 10mph limit sign up, people barely notice it and go their own speeds. If you put nine- and-a-half mph then people do a double-take and stick to it.
‘We have used it on one other previous site and it was successful so we used it here too. I can see it looks funny but that was the intention. The site is a safer place for them taking notice of it rather than ignoring it.’
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