Parking Ticket Appeals successes and failures

daggy

taffy056 wrote: »

Can you post this in a new thread, otherwise people may not see this, can you answer whether this is a council ticket in that new thread, many thanks.

http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/forumdisplay.php?f=163

Hi,

yep, my apologies.

just clicked out of thread and realised that I should have made another topic as this thread isn't relevant to my query.
Feel free to delet my post.

Thanks for your help

My bad

clatterbucket

My parking appeal has come back stating I have lost the case. Is it true that I can have the ticket cancelled by default as it's been over 56 days since my appeal and I only received notification yesterday? It's Hillingdon council and it has been nearly 90 days!

Coupon-mad

clatterbucket wrote: »

My parking appeal has come back stating I have lost the case. Is it true that I can have the ticket cancelled by default as it's been over 56 days since my appeal and I only received notification yesterday? It's Hillingdon council and it has been nearly 90 days!

You mean you just have a standard rejection letter? That's not 'losing a case', it's just one stage of the Council's game of bluff!

You need to start your own thread as this one is for successes and failures, doesn't sound like you have reached either outcome yet.

undecisive

I've just had a success with Norwich City Council. Having just signed a contract on a newly rented house, we went in to check the inventory. We were there a couple of hours, and got a PCN because the road is for permit holders only. Having explained in our first appeal that we had just signed the contract (on a Saturday, when the council isn't open for the purchase of permits) and that we had purchased a permit on the following Monday, their reply was essentially "The ticket was issued correctly, you haven't got a leg to stand on". Of course the sphincter police had issued it correctly, clearly nobody had actually read our letter.

We sent an email to that effect that got promptly ignored.

Partly as a matter of principle, and partly because we had a very tight month and we couldn't pay, we pushed on to round two. Using the MSE letter template, we claimed Mitigating circumstances. In evidence, we sent them the first page of our contract (the one with the date on), and even gave them a link to their own website that states the opening hours. This round obviously got assigned to a human, and we got a response that the charge was dropped "as a gesture of good will".

That said, we sent the letter on 19th March. We got our response today (Friday 13th May, no less) We were worried that our letter had gotten lost. The bit about it being a "gesture of good will" made us laugh, but we're very glad of the result.

One last thing to note: In our email, the one they ignored, we quoted direct.gov.uk's section on parking permits which states that parking zones exist "in order to help residents park their vehicles". It may seem silly, but that was the only thing we seemed to have our side, we couldn't see anything that stated ours was a valid mitigating circumstance.

frmarcus

Returned to my car in ASDA carpark to find a ticket from Sefton Council stating the car park was its and I had no permit. You got the £2 refunded if you spent more than £10 in store, which I had, but I'd neglacted to get the ticket in the first place. My first appeal was rejected but the second was successful, with a GP's note stating I was suffering from anxiety disorder (was distracted in the car park) and and the ASDA receipt - indicating that I had nothing to gain from not buying a ticket as I'd have been refunded.

Coupon-mad

frmarcus wrote: »

Returned to my car in ASDA carpark to find a ticket from Sefton Council stating the car park was its and I had no permit. You got the £2 refunded if you spent more than £10 in store, which I had, but I'd neglacted to get the ticket in the first place. My first appeal was rejected but the second was successful, with a GP's note stating I was suffering from anxiety disorder (was distracted in the car park) and and the ASDA receipt - indicating that I had nothing to gain from not buying a ticket as I'd have been refunded.

Was this really from a Council? Sounds more like a private parking ticket?

taffy056

Coupon-mad wrote: »

Was this really from a Council? Sounds more like a private parking ticket?

It's owned by the council apparently , just checked on google

j-jo1970

Islington Council issued a ticket to my van that was not even parked where they said it was. I had the ticket showing the machine it had been issued from along with the correct time. When I disputed it, I was sent copies of the notes from the parking attendant saying that I had run after him, threatened him with a hammer and racially abused him!! The parking fine was cancelled but my request that they apologise to me for accusing me of violent, racist behaviour has gone unanswered. No surprise there, and before you think they just had the wrong vehicle, they managed to take down the correct vehicle tax disc number.

Coblcris

The tax disk number is returned to the council from a DVLA request, I would never assume that it was not supplied post facto.

ninjazx9r0

I recently got a PCN from a private firm looking after a supermarkets carpark. The reason was that I was parked in an unmarked bay! After researching on this site I found out that, as I was not the driver of the car, I was not repsonsible for the ticket. The contract for using a carpark is between the driver, the supermarket owner and the carpark company and NOT the owner of the car!

So, in future, if you get a PCN and you are not driving the car, but are the owner, appeal and don't pay upfront!

Thanks