Parking Tickets Query

clio

Did the law with parking tickets change when the local councils took it over??
at one time it was an offence to drive off whilst ticket was being written out.now your within your rights to drive away if parking ticket bloke is still writing the ticket out and is not place ont he windscreen. if so no wonder the bloke kept me talking as i got to the car and he enquired if i was the owner, scribbling away as though his life depended on it. and i just felt he was stalling me. so can anyone fill me in..

sarahg1969

It has changed, but you've not got it quite right.

It used to be the case that the notice had to be handed to the driver or placed on the vehicle. You were allowed to drive away, so that the notice could not be served. However, you were not allowed to prevent the officer serving by say, taking a part-completed notice from him or by obstructing him.

Since March/April this year, however, if you drive away, they are allowed to serve by post.

If you HAVE received a notice, though, it's not necessarily correct, and my advice would be to seek the assistance of the members of the forums at https://www.pepipoo.com who are knowledgeable on such matters.

clio

Thanks sarah
so he was correct and i,m not correct lol.. 6 minutes over on my ticket and it,ll cost me £30 if payed in quickly. if people served you quicker in shops i would of made it back. but then again i could say i should of stuck an extra hour on to be on safe side.

Emskin74

Hi,

I'm looking for some help with a parking fine I luckily obtained today and wondered if anyone had an example appeal letter and/or advice.

I today nipped to my local town with my mum to do a lilttle shopping.

When I was returning to my car I spotted the Traffuic Warden 2 cars away from mine, moving away and my heart sank, especially when I noticed the lovely yellow envelope stuck to my windscreen. Two onlookers told me that he had only just left my vehicle.

I opened the yellow envelope and got out my paid parking ticket and there was exactly five minuites lapse between the two tickets.

I quickly went to the grumpy old man who wasnt intersted and mearly pointed out that 5 minutes late is 5 minutes late.

The annoying thing is it would have took him some time fill in the information on his hand held machine, so he must have done this in advance,in order for the time to be exactly 5 minutes.

The fine is £50 or £25 if paid within 14 days of which I think is extortionate.

Admitted I should have come back even earlier but the frustrating part is that I out one pound in the parking machine as did not have any other change, the fee for one hour was 60p, these machines do not give change nor do they stipulate what you have paid.

Any advise please as I am to contest.

Many Thanks

:mad:

Pete268

Emskin74 wrote: »

Hi,

I'm looking for some help with a parking fine I luckily obtained today and wondered if anyone had an example appeal letter and/or advice.

I today nipped to my local town with my mum to do a lilttle shopping.

When I was returning to my car I spotted the Traffuic Warden 2 cars away from mine, moving away and my heart sank, especially when I noticed the lovely yellow envelope stuck to my windscreen. Two onlookers told me that he had only just left my vehicle.

I opened the yellow envelope and got out my paid parking ticket and there was exactly five minuites lapse between the two tickets.

I quickly went to the grumpy old man who wasnt intersted and mearly pointed out that 5 minutes late is 5 minutes late.

The annoying thing is it would have took him some time fill in the information on his hand held machine, so he must have done this in advance,in order for the time to be exactly 5 minutes.

The fine is £50 or £25 if paid within 14 days of which I think is extortionate.

Admitted I should have come back even earlier but the frustrating part is that I out one pound in the parking machine as did not have any other change, the fee for one hour was 60p, these machines do not give change nor do they stipulate what you have paid.

Any advise please as I am to contest.

Many Thanks

:mad:

Hi,

Was this on a private or council car park or road??

If it was a private one such as a shop or shopping centre car park just ignore it as it isn't enforceable.

If it was a council car park or road or a railway station or a police issued ticket then they are enforcible. However you can appeal.

See the pepipoo website - there is a link in a post above for more details.

Pete

sarahg1969

"If it was a council car park or road or a railway station or a police issued ticket then they are enforcible."

They must get their wording absolutely spot-on, and the parking spaces/bays/road must be correctly marked.