Parking Fine

burton999_2

Not sure if is the right sub-board for my topic but if not I do apologise as I'm new on here

I received a letter yesterday saying that I received a fixed penalty notice for parking in a loading only bay. It said that the amount owed was £70 as I failed to pay the reduced fee of 50% within the initial 14 day period.

This is the first I have heard of any parking ticket so as you can tell I'm not happy.

I understand I must have parked illegally and will pay the £35 no problem, but surely they carn't expect me to pay the full £70 without any prior knowledge and therefore no opportunity to pay the £35

Any advice would be much appreciated Ta

Quentin

All you can do is tell them what you have told us and see if they will let you pay the reduced charge.

I guess it will be difficult to convince them, as they will have heard this many times before!

kazwookie

Try ringing them up and asking for the reduced rate and when the original ticket was issued.

Toilet-Duck

Unless it was issued by the council then I dont think it is a legal ticket there are loads of companies that hand out tickets and they arnt even legal meaning you dont need to pay since they arnt enforceable.

Who was it issued by??

sarahg1969

Before you do anything with it, take some advice from the helpful members at https://www.pepipoo.com. Don't take it as read that the ticket was correctly issued or =that the bay is legal.

Sarah

Crabman

I've moved this to the Motoring Board

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