Blame it on the contractor

The disabled parking bay appeared in Saffron Walden in 2011 and the other was painted in Romford in 2015. In both cases, it appears that a council contractor had been provided with a plan that did not show the lamppost. However, neither worker seems to have had the sense to query the plan before painting the white lines. And neither council had the guts to admit supplying a faulty plan.