PCN issued outside my home

ghazala_2

I was issued a PCN today at 13.48, right outside my own house :eek:
Contravention code 01 Parked in a restricted street during prescribed hours.

I have lived at this address since June 2007 and never had a problem, there are single yellow lines on my road with signs saying that parking is only allowed for 1 hour during the hours of 07.30am to 6.30pm.

The houses on my road are all terraced with no off road parking space so everyone parks outside their homes on the street parking.

Please help, would i be successfull by challenging on the grounds that i am a resident of the road where my car was parked.

mikey72

No, just be thankful they only issue tickets once a year.

Horace

Appeal the ticket don't pay it. Don't even admit to them that you were parked illegally - always use the word alleged because when you appeal they have to provide photographic evidence etc. It will help if you also gather evidence - time plates, yellow lines, parking bays or lack of etc. etc.

As there are time plates in place saying that parking is limited to one hour between the hours of 7.30am to 6.30pm - I assume that you have ignored these and parked there all day? I would check with your local council to see if you need to get a residents' parking permit - they may well have changed the rules about parking in your street without telling you.

HTH

real1314

So, were you parked for more than an hour during the hours where parking is only allowed for up to 1 hour?

Neil_B

What Council is this? (crucial).
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overlander

Just brown trying to claw back money for more bailouts of the financial incompetent. You really need to make a stand here or they will be round every day, even if you lose you know where you stand. But fight it all the way and forget the do gooders who say you were in the wrong things are not always black and white. If as you say its your only parking its a disgrace and should go to court.

Neil_B

overlander wrote: »

Just brown trying to claw back money for more bailouts of the financial incompetent. You really need to make a stand here or they will be round every day, even if you lose you know where you stand. But fight it all the way and forget the do gooders who say you were in the wrong things are not always black and white. If as you say its your only parking its a disgrace and should go to court.

As I've just said to someone else on the forum. All very well but on what grounds are you suggesting he appeal (given that it's not your money)?

- and no, Court has nothing to do with it.

overlander

It will end up in court if you do not pay it and to be honest they cannot pay it. The whole street would then be slapped with tickets, and thats wrong. You should have the right to park outside your house. I assume that they have been parking there for years so obviously its not dangerous. Probaly find its some hitler warden just started.

Neil_B

overlander wrote: »

It will end up in court if you do not pay it

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ok. Let's try another way. Given that he has described it as a PCN then explain to me at which point and in which Court this would be dealt with? - because it isn't.

overlander wrote: »

and to be honest they cannot pay it.

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I'm just being dumb i think now. I don't understand what you mean?

overlander

What i mean is if they pay the precedent will be set, they have to argue the legality of the yellow line. You just cannot slap yellow lines down as a cash cow.

Inactive

overlander wrote: »

It will end up in court if you do not pay it and to be honest they cannot pay it. The whole street would then be slapped with tickets, and thats wrong. You should have the right to park outside your house. I assume that they have been parking there for years so obviously its not dangerous. Probaly find its some hitler warden just started.

Nobody has the " right " to park outside their house, unless they hold a residents permit.