Bowral Playgroup pays council to use East Bowral Community Centre on Mondays and Fridays for two hours in the mornings.

The centre parking lot has several parking signs for users.

One sign advises motorists that parking is only allowed for permit holders, another states parking is available for centre users and the third has marked 'community centre' on the car spaces.

The playgroup has used the facilities for about eight years and since that time several different parking regulations have been enforced.

For a while, the individual car parks were marked for community centre users.

This was followed by laminated permits given to playgroup members, and earlier this year a voucher machine was installed.

The voucher system requires parking lot users to park their cars, enter the community centre and retrieve a voucher, then walk back to their cars and place the voucher on the windscreen of the car.

Since this new system was installed, two playgroup members have been fined.

One of these members was Melissa McCandless who said the system was not only "dangerous" for mothers with children and disabled persons, but was also "illegal".

"You're not allowed to leave your car for more than two minutes or be further than three metres away from it," Ms McCandless said.

"Having to park the car, take your child and sometimes unlock the building and then get a voucher is in breach.

"It's pointless for disabled people as well; what's the point of having a space and then having to come in to the building to get a voucher to put back into your car?"

Ms McCandless said the parking permissions were "unclear" for patrons, as there were no instructions for the voucher system.

"You're getting fined for something you didn't know you had to do," she said.

"It's meant to be a community centre, but this isn't very community-like."

Playgroup member Erica Rundle said it created a situation where people could do something illegal and leave children in the car while they got the voucher.

"Why would you want to turn mums away?" Ms Rundle said. "It's wrong on so many fronts.

"We have a right to be heard and speak up. We expect a resolution."

A council spokesman said the voucher system was implemented after "extensive" consultation with the Community Centre Management Committee with the intent of managing parking for all frequent users of the shared premises.

"It was introduced as a way to alleviate ongoing conflict between the car park users which are used by a number of adjacent facilities," the spokesman said.

Ms Rundle and Ms McCandless requested council make a donation equal to the fine amount to Bowral Playgroup.