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Parking Ticket
Got a ticket today. I was parked in a Residents Only parking bay on a public street, but I did not realise this until I got back to the car and found the ticket on the windscreen. The nearest lamp post, just in front of where I parked close to the end of the bay, had no sign on it and the nearest sign was something like 5 or 6 car lengths away. I just hadn't seen it when walking away from the car.
Do I stand a chance of winning an appeal or is it my fault for not looking hard enough up and down the street?
The ticket tells me that if I pay within 14 days I get 50% reduction (from 120 to 60 quid!). If I appeal and lose, will I have the chance to pay the reduced rate?
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Martin
Do I stand a chance of winning an appeal or is it my fault for not looking hard enough up and down the street?
The ticket tells me that if I pay within 14 days I get 50% reduction (from 120 to 60 quid!). If I appeal and lose, will I have the chance to pay the reduced rate?
Cheers
Martin
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Annoying. I've had the same happen to me. The signs are about 6"x3" and few and far between. I never contested it at the time, but maybe I should have.
The thing is, there was plenty of free space, so it must have been one of the miserable residents that complained. There was no way a traffic warden would have been down that road without being invited.
The thing is, there was plenty of free space, so it must have been one of the miserable residents that complained. There was no way a traffic warden would have been down that road without being invited.
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Originally Posted by GrittyShaker,Feb 16 2008, 09:57 PM
There was no way a traffic warden would have been down that road without being invited.
Like too many Police, they like a soft target
Depends who they work for too.......
Anyone know Cross St in Worthing?
It's always cluttered with illegally parked and untaxed cars and vans - mostly connected to a scrappy who operates in the road
NOTHING is done about parking enforcement - despite the road being regularly blocked causing tailbacks
Round the corner however, where residents only applies apart from 10-11 and 2-3, and there is NEVER any congestion, you can set your watch by the arrival and departure of the wardens
ps I think you are fecked
but how can
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you have to think what your time is worth.
How much ime you going to rack up writting letters, worrying about it, on the phone, just generally thinking about it. Is that worth
How much ime you going to rack up writting letters, worrying about it, on the phone, just generally thinking about it. Is that worth
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I have had 4 parking tickets in my life and contested everyone with photos to prove that it was not clear. I have had every ticket withdrawn.
And as long as you contest it within the discount period it should stay at the discounted rate, worth phoning to check though.
And as long as you contest it within the discount period it should stay at the discounted rate, worth phoning to check though.
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Originally Posted by potfish,Feb 16 2008, 09:47 PM
The nearest lamp post, just in front of where I parked close to the end of the bay, had no sign on it and the nearest sign was something like 5 or 6 car lengths away. I just hadn't seen it when walking away from the car.
Do I stand a chance of winning an appeal or is it my fault for not looking hard enough up and down the street?
Do I stand a chance of winning an appeal or is it my fault for not looking hard enough up and down the street?
Go to Pepipoo forum and have a dig around. You'l need pics for people to help you generally though.
I got one revoked though the indpendent adjudicator on a couple of counts (not a dissimilar situation to yours), one count was for not correctly displaying the signage, and another was because of the length of some of the lines-it's not a nescessity to know the precise bits of the legislation that are being contravened.
Different regs in London BTW.
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Originally Posted by RobJ1,Feb 17 2008, 04:08 PM
And as long as you contest it within the discount period it should stay at the discounted rate, worth phoning to check though.
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