Parking tickets issues outside house

mymatebob

Froggy09 wrote: »

My first post, so be gentle with me.

I'm not sure where this lies, however here goes: Having been parking in an area outside my house for 10 years, suddenly in October my car and my lodger car were ticketed (PCN issued by North Wiltshire District Council).

I immediately appealed, as I was under the impression that the area I had parked on was actually allocated as parking for my house and was sure that it said as much in the deeds. The area concerned is a marked out concrete zone immediately adjacent to my property. It has a dropped kerb and my garage faces out onto the area in question, not directly to the road. There are double yellow lines around approximately 80% of the area concerned. Following my appeal I initially heard nothing and in the process have acquired another 5 or 6 tickets!

The council have now replied stating the area concerned is not shown in my deeds as allocated parking and that the ticket stands. They have provided a copy of the section of my deeds that shows allocation for all the other properties, but not mine!

I have a number of issues, 1) That a number of cars are parked in a very similar circumstances 50 yards further up the road, and are not being ticketed. Lucky them, feel free to suggest to the council that they can increase their revenue by ticketing these people 2) The area I'm parking in, I suspect still belongs to the developer, not the council, although I don't know how to prove this. Ask the council and ask the developer 3) Surely after parking for over 10 years, with no threat or hint that it is illegal to do so there must be some recourse. There is even a sign on the wall stating "Private parking for No** " that was there before I purchased the property. Who put the sign there and does it have any legal standing - again point this out to the council

I intend to appeal further, but in the meantime I keep getting tickets as there isn't anywhere else to park, particularly on Saturdays when I'm not at work.

You mean anywhere that is quite so convenient I assume

Any sage advice - I'm beginning to lose sleep about this ! :mad:

While you fight this you may want to park elsewhere rather than accumulate loads of tickets.

Just because you haven't been ticketed in the past 10 years doesn't mean you had a right to park there, you were fortunate in the past and now presumably some zealous person has decided to ticket you.

Froggy09

Well some interesting advice - sorry for the links - I've no idea what's going on there, it works fine on other forums.

Here's another go using tiny pic




The advice to park elsewhere is very sage, but the nearest unrestricted parking must be a good 1/4 mile away, or I start stealing other neighbours regular parking slots and causing them a problem. Which from the tone of your advice is what you would do... :rolleyes:

Neil_B

PCN is fully comlpiant IMO albeit some unnecessary additional extra detail added.

On parking facilities - political issue - you deal with that through appropriate channels and campaign.

Never did see your pics and not going to that album again. Answers on research posiibilities were posted by 'mymatebob'.
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Froggy09

sparky7 wrote: »

Anyway... back to the topic!

I take it you can't park in your garage?

Not at the moment, due to many years of useless tat accumulation, bikes, unused fitness equipment, DIY equipment etc.

Even if I clear it out, there are 2 cars in use at the house...

Froggy09

Neil_B wrote: »

PCN is fully comlpiant IMO albeit some unnecessary additional extra detail added.

On parking facilities - political issue - you deal with that through appropriate channels and campaign.

Thanks for looking at it.

I have currently appealed every ticket, 2 have been cancelled as "goodwill", 3 have just gone to NtO, which I will be taking to the tribunal,

I have also recently been in touch with the local councillor responsible for parking, and he seems to think I have a case, and I have my local councillor coming round this evening to have a look, hopefully between them I can get the issue resolved.

If not, I'll seriously be thinking about moving house!

Neil_B

For the three for which you have NtOs you cannot yet go to the Adjudicator. You have to make formal representations first.

PCN was very tidy - but got one of the NtOs handy to show? ya never know.

Froggy09

Just as a come back on this, shortly after I posted here I contacted my local councillor, how agreed to come and look at the situation. She was very helpful, and agreed with me that the tickets were not being issued in a sensible fashion, and that I shouldn't be getting them, in her opinion.

About a week later she had revisited the site, with the CE of the council and the councillor with portfolio for parking, and about a week later I had a letter(s) quashing all 8 tickets that had been issued on various friends and families vehicles. :j

My advice, if you are having genuine trouble and it' local council civil enforcement, is to get your local councillors involved.