'Parking Fines. You can reclaim them...' blog discussion

gb57

Of course disabled spaces need to be right near the door (it was the P&C spaces being near the door that I was querying).

I HATE the way that disabled parking spaces are misused and abused - how about a disabled sticker in a very low slung sports car? How many disabled people do you know who can get into a low slung sports car???

Sorry, way off topic there, back to parking tickets!

kevanf1

irrelevant wrote: »

Anybody ever had a fine for parking in a parent and child or disabled space in a supermarket car park? Signs promise them in local sainsburys & asda, but nobody enforces them it seems. (I'm asking this from the point of view of a parent with a toddler who just got back from shopping having had the last two spaces taken, in front of me, both by people without any kids.)

Asda in Cannock do fine people who park illegally in the disabled bays I am pleased to say. However, Tesco in Cannock/HeathHayes don't give a fig. Yesterday out of 6 spaces 5 were taken up by vehicles with blue disabled parking badges. Shame on them for being lazy toads I say. I was forced to park quite some way away from the store and I was having a bad day walking wise.

kevanf1

KatP wrote: »

Great advice on reclaiming if you live in an area where parking is dealt with by your local council, but where I live it is the police. I got a ticket last year, only because of misleading signage, I had checked the signs which gave two hours parking and I came back within the time to find a ticket. Apparently that only applied to one side of the market place and the other was no parking, but it wasn't clear. There is a big free no restrictions car park next to the market place so had I realised I would have gone in there. I wasn't the only one either about ten other cars were parked in the same way as me and there are nearly every day.

I didn't appeal because it is a much more risky process requiring a court hearing if the ticket is issued by the police. It would be helpful if the reclaiming guide could include some help for those with tickets issued by the police.

Please check out my post in this thread. My fine was an FPN not a PCN and I appealed even though the only seeming course was to go to court. I didn't I just wrote to the only address I could find on the ticket. It worked.

aminn

hi

i was wondering if someone can help me? I got a pcn fine on sat night as i was parked on a single yellow line, which apparently was parked in a resticted area during prescribed hours.

My baby daughter needed to be changed so I went into a restarant up the road from when I parked and when I came back I had a fine! The time on it shows only a minute difference between the two times stated. I was gone for probably 5 or 6 minutes.

Do I have a case to appeal? And also I thought you could park on a single yellow line after 6.30pm?? It was in an area I don't normally got to (Brent). Do you think they will be nice and let it go?

Thanks

ninebobnote

Hi has anyone appealed against a ticket when it has been bought but fell off the window, i have receipt but just wondering if anyone has had any success. many thanks

Crabman

ninebobnote wrote: »

Hi has anyone appealed against a ticket when it has been bought but fell off the window, i have receipt but just wondering if anyone has had any success. many thanks

Could you post this in a new thread on the Parking Fines Board?

Please take a look at the sticky threads for guidelines on what to include

slimjim1968

on the 04/05/09 my wife was picking me up from a night out with the lads in barnsley south yorkshire at the end of the night i asked her to pick me up to cut the cost of a taxi to sheffield at 00.43am she arrived at the kfc car park and waited for me at 01.02 am we left .about a week later we had the shock of our lives when we was given a parking fine for £75 i phoned civil enforcement ltd who issued the fine and told them that my wife picked me up from a night out and it was the nearest car park and the safest place to park as it was a bank holiday and it was busy in the centre of town the lady on the phone told me i had a good case but told me to pay the fine until they receive my appeal letter ,i didnt pay the fine i just sent a letter instead ,they replied to my letter stating they had photographic evidance but my wife didnt even get out of the car and didnt see the signs as it was dark they still wanted the £75 with in 7 days otherwise it would go up to £150 i still havnt paid the fine but 2 months later it as been tranfered to another company newlyn plc which they now want £225 could anyone help me in my situation as this is getting out of hand ,

Crabman

slimjim1968 wrote: »

on the 04/05/09 my wife was picking me up from a night out with the lads in barnsley south yorkshire at the end of the night i asked her to pick me up to cut the cost of a taxi to sheffield at 00.43am she arrived at the kfc car park and waited for me at 01.02 am we left .about a week later we had the shock of our lives when we was given a parking fine for £75 i phoned civil enforcement ltd who issued the fine and told them that my wife picked me up from a night out and it was the nearest car park and the safest place to park as it was a bank holiday and it was busy in the centre of town the lady on the phone told me i had a good case but told me to pay the fine until they receive my appeal letter ,i didnt pay the fine i just sent a letter instead ,they replied to my letter stating they had photographic evidance but my wife didnt even get out of the car and didnt see the signs as it was dark they still wanted the £75 with in 7 days otherwise it would go up to £150 i still havnt paid the fine but 2 months later it as been tranfered to another company newlyn plc which they now want £225 could anyone help me in my situation as this is getting out of hand ,

Welcome to MSE :hello:

You're right to have not paid it. Ignore any begging letters that comes through from the cowboys. Only take notice if you receive genuine court papers (this hardly happens). You may want to post this on the Parking Fines board for further reassurance from the experts

slimjim1968

would like to say thanks for the advice its not as though my wife got out of the car to look for signs in the dark she was all alone and any thing could have happened .

cantabrico

I recently got a fine of £75 when using the leisure centre. Its free parking for the leisure centre if you go in and register your car. I did this but unfortunately wrote one of the letters wrong of my registration details. For this reason they fined me and said that if I didn't pay up within 14 days it would go to £150. At the time I thought £75 was the lesser of two evils, so I paid it but I have written to them to try and get the money back. I have read the MSE article too late, I don't think I would have paid it if I knew then what I know now, then again hindsight is a wonderful thing! Has anyone got any tips on how I can fight to get my £75 back?