Residential Parking Fine

redmanmark86

Hi everyone and hope you can help me.

I live in London and my council requires everyoen to have a parking permit to park on the street which obviously because i lvie in this council i have.

Anyway i parked my car on the 21/01/09 and took a train to newcastle as i was seeing a show up there with my girlfriend. When i came back tonight, the 22/01/09 i was shocked to see that i had been given a fine. i was given the fine at 17:39 for nto displaying my parkign permit which i was shocked to as the council gives you those self sticking on ones.
After i got in my car i had seen that it had unpeeled itself and fallen on my floor, however this is surely not my fault and not something i should have to pay 60 pounds for as they provide the permit and should make sure it sticky enough to survive a bit of bad weather (i say bad weather as thats the only thing i can guess caused to loose its stickyness, from my window freezing to ice and then melting).

So i guess my question is where do i stand and what could i possibly appeal on?

I mean the council keeps a record of all cars that have a permit form their registration to their colour and make so surely i have somewhere to stand? i recently got lad of jsut ebfore xmas and dont have money to waste...

Crabman

Could you scan and post the PCN (details here)?

(if that's going to take a while, could you say which borough council issued it?)

redmanmark86

Hi, here is a copy of the ticket as requested. Its a bit hard to read as it was in the rain for like 6 hours before i finally got back to my car that night.

peter_the_piper

Would you please take off all identifying marks for safety.

Crabman

Could you post the back of the PCN too?

redmanmark86

As requested here is the back too,

Neil_B

PCN is ok.

Only thing you have at the moment is a plea for them to exercise discretion. Technically you were in contravention so purely reliant on their good nature (did I really just say that?). Not too hopeful but at least they say they will preserve the discount if they reject.

The other possibility, as you were in a residents bay is that the bay may be flawed. Need some good pics of that, particularly showing the ends - wide and high angle.
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