parking ticket

ladydi

I got a parking ticket today thought i better just tell people how i got it so nobody else does the same as me ..I have a Blue badge was parking in a disabled space but there wasnt quite enough space so 2foot of the car was on yellow lines i thought well thats ok because with a BB u can park on double yellow . but i was wrong u can only park wholly on double yellow or wholly in the parking bay u cant straddle the 2.,...maybe i should write and tell them they should put markings in the bay so there would have been enough space for my smallcar to have fitted in ..has the car in front hadnt left enough space for me so it could go and on oh well has they say i know now and not make the same mistaketc all

magenta

Hello,
That's awful, sounds like the kinda thing that would happen to me! It's not your fault the person next to you couldn't park their car right! Shame on them :x
Magenta x

roczko

It seems like common sense disappears as soon as a traffic warden dons a uniform.

So sorry you've been caught like this.

I can relate a similar story with my dad and his blue badge. He parked in an area which overlapped a loading bay but he thought he was ok on the double yellow lines. He was wrong! Seems the loading bay area supersedes the double yellow lines and he got a ticket. To rub salt in the wounds, the shop served by the loading bay had closed down some years earlier and was derelict.

As I say, no common sense.

Kind regards.

Patrick

livinglegend

There is a 50% discount if payment of a Penalty Charge Notice is received by the council within 14 days of the date the PCN was issued. Please note that it is not possible to pay a PCN and then contest the charge. Payment of a PCN indicates that the motorist has accepted liability and the right of appeal is lost.

You can make informal representations against a PCN providing they receive them in writing within 14 days of the date the PCN was issued. If a letter or email contesting a PCN is received within the 14-day discount period, the discount will be re-offered if they decide to uphold the charge. The address to appeal to is on the back of the PCN.
All the above from www.wandsworth.gov.uk, but it should be the same wherever.

If you wish to appeal go online to http://www.appealnow.com and complete the form. They will then register the appeal for you.

Worth a try as 65% of appeals are successful. Contact your local freebie papers as well, to complain about the council's jobsworth. All Council's absolutely hate any bad publicity which holds them up to ridicule.

Joseph 8)

livinglegend

Many Disabled parking bays are wrongly laid out and if the markings or signage is wrong, then you can appeal a ticket.

If you go to http://www.dft.gov.uk and enter P1028.3 in the Search box at the top right of the page, then it will give you a link to a set of plans that Councils have to follow. Take along your copy of the plans and check the layout, using a tape measure to check the dimensions. If there is a row of individual disabled bays marked out, (not in a lay-by), then both ends of the row have to terminate in double white lines. If any are wrong, then you can appeal on the grounds that the layout is not to specification. :P

Plenty of information is available at http://www.ticketfighter.co.uk/home.htm

For instance, were both the double yellow lines unbroken and properly terminated at BOTH ends. Another catch.

Joseph 8)

frogmorton

Hi Ladydi
Poor you It's so upsetting isn't it? You can't stop thinking about things like this when they happen to you can you?
Joseph some really good advice there for all of us. Thanks
Toni xx

scorpiojackie

livinglegend wrote:

There is a 50% discount if payment of a Penalty Charge Notice is received by the council within 14 days of the date the PCN was issued. Please note that it is not possible to pay a PCN and then contest the charge. Payment of a PCN indicates that the motorist has accepted liability and the right of appeal is lost.

You can make informal representations against a PCN providing they receive them in writing within 14 days of the date the PCN was issued. If a letter or email contesting a PCN is received within the 14-day discount period, the discount will be re-offered if they decide to uphold the charge. The address to appeal to is on the back of the PCN.
All the above from www.wandsworth.gov.uk, but it should be the same wherever.

If you wish to appeal go online to http://www.appealnow.com and complete the form. They will then register the appeal for you.

Worth a try as 65% of appeals are successful. Contact your local freebie papers as well, to complain about the council's jobs-worth. All Council's absolutely hate any bad publicity which holds them up to ridicule.

Joseph 8)

Hi all,

Exactly the same happened to me.... Parking bay/double lines.
I wrote a letter of disgust and they let me off. I had also complained about the disrespectful way that the 'Jobs worth' had leaped at my car to ticket it.
When I tried to query his action (because I like you, thought I was allowed to park there) He just laughed & said write to the council.
I took his number and did just that! One less Argos voucher or whatever for him

Its certainly worth a try, nothing to lose.

Jackie

ladydi

thank you everyone for your replys i will contest it nothing to lose... the parking bay was just a long one with no markings splitting it up then either end was double yellow lines so will look into that as well once again thank you all.. diane

marief

Hi

My mother and I were shopping and parked in disabled bay 2 hours later on way back and saw traffic warden giving us a ticket asked why it was becuse my mother had not put the clock part of the blue badge up and the disabled bay were we had parked were 3 hour limited bay and need the clock to be parked there , I have never heard of this before .
He then went on and gave parking tickets to the whole row off disabled bay uses talk about making easys money of the disabled .
Also I did point the cars parked opp on yellow lines with no blue badges who in my mind should have been the first ones to get tickets.

livinglegend

Had a quick look at the DfT site and its clear as regards display of the clock.

In England and Wales, when you park on yellow lines or another place where there is a time restriction, you need to display the parking disc to show your time of arrival. (My Note: not in Scotland. )

You must wait for at least one hour after a previous period of parking before you can park the same vehicle in the same road or part of a road on the same day.

Sorry folks.

Joseph 8)

frogmorton

Oh Dear
(Hi Joseph - hope you are well?)
Think we should all read the small print. Shame that tickety person couldn';t have issued Warnings to those poor people though :!: Meanie :roll:
Toni x

livinglegend

frogmorton wrote:

Oh Dear
(Hi Joseph - hope you are well?)
Think we should all read the small print. Shame that tickety person couldn';t have issued Warnings to those poor people though :!: Meanie :roll:
Toni x

Got cold in the bones. Officially hibernating though.

Joseph 8)

jaybar

Hi have just read your postings re parking ticket , I do hope you appealed . I got a ticket mid december for being 2 mins late !!!!!!!!!!!!! Dont have a blue badge , but was going through a particually bad patch with o/a of knee , I also suffer from heart failure . So I appealed , a couple of days ago I got a letter stating that they understand the circumstances, but the reasons for overstaying the time limit are not acceptable as grounds for cancellation of the penalty charge notice .So I have to pay , only the £25 though . So anyone in the Oadby and Wigston area of Leicestershire be warned overstaying by two minuites will result in a fine . But I really do think you have a reason to appeal , it does seem a blue badge means nothing. Good Luck! :? :? :?

ladydi

hiya all just to let you all know i got my letter back i still have to pay the parking fine ..... so thx a lot nottingham city council... ...

livinglegend

ladydi wrote:

hiya all just to let you all know i got my letter back i still have to pay the parking fine ..... so thx a lot nottingham city council... ...

Email your local Councillor, CC: to all local freebie papers, and ask why they are ignoring the DDA (Disability Discrimination Act) and what do you intend to do about it. Have a real go at them!

The thing Councils' hate is a load of disability, discriminatory, wide-spread, bad publicity. Does your Council have an Equality and Diversity Officer? I told our local one that she was a total waste of space and that she was more interested in filling her handbag with ratepayers hard earned cash than in representing disabled people. Needless to say, all the County Councillors, yes, all 63 of them, got a CC: copy of my comments.

They are paid a lot of money to work for you and you want action or else!!!!!! :shock:

If you do decide to pay, write across all the forms, Paying this is NOT an admission of guilt this MAY enable you to appeal against it at a later date as you could claim that you have not accepted that you were in the wrong. :P

Joseph 8)

eckstardeluxe

livinglegend is right, use any means possible, that's shocking what's happened to you. If all else fails, i've found a nice little number to the letters page in your local paper does the trick!