Parking ticket in islington- 4 minutes overdue

cjcooper

Arrrgghh

was walking back to my car yesterday and noticed a traffic warden at my car so off i run. shouting woooooo stop. he said to late mate tickets printed. my parking ticket expired at 13.04, ticket was issued at my watch at 13.08 ish. is there anyway i can argue this. seems pretty close to me or do i have to just accept this. its an offical penalty charge notice for 80 pounds but 40 if paid in 14 days

arrggh you can almost see the smirk on these peoples faces. now in a nice kind world he could have walked round the carpark for 5 mins and see if i turned up.

Weirdlittleman

cjcooper wrote: »

Arrrgghh

was walking back to my car yesterday and noticed a traffic warden at my car so off i run. shouting woooooo stop. he said to late mate tickets printed. my parking ticket expired at 13.04, ticket was issued at my watch at 13.08 ish. is there anyway i can argue this. seems pretty close to me or do i have to just accept this. its an offical penalty charge notice for 80 pounds but 40 if paid in 14 days

arrggh you can almost see the smirk on these peoples faces. now in a nice kind world he could have walked round the carpark for 5 mins and see if i turned up.

And you could of parked legally and arrived back in time to move before your ticket expired.

cjcooper

thanks thats a great help, i was only asking if there may have been some allowance. i know i was over my time.

Mojisola

It does sound mean but I expect he's got targets to meet and you were an easy catch.

Pew_Pew_Pew_Lasers!

I received a parking ticket in Islington, and successfully contested it as the road markings were unlawful.

I suggest you head to https://www.pepipoo.com

cjcooper

Pew_Pew_Pew_Lasers! wrote: »

I received a parking ticket in Islington, and successfully contested it as the road markings were unlawful.

I suggest you head to www.pepipoo.com

thank you for the kind reply:j

JimmyTheWig

Weirdlittleman wrote: »

And you could of parked legally and arrived back in time to move before your ticket expired.

Yeah, because it's always easy to judge exactly how long something's going to take to the minute. It's always easy to know in advance which days the queues are going to be long, which days you'll need the toilet, etc.

jgallcash

When did this board become full of smart @rses who like to gloat at other's expense?

You may not care but it's people like you that will be the downfall of these forums.

BTW OP be careful because Islington will be £120 fine or £60 if paid within their timeframe. I don't think that it is unreasonable for you to attend late by a few minutes but this unfortunately doesn't matter. Head over to Pepipoo and see what they can do. Good Luck

frannyann

They did this to me in tunbridge wells, I was 5 minutes over, and tried to appeal but had to pay in the end, only saving grace was it was 'only' £25 which is not too bad compared to London fines, feel your pain!!

taffy056

Can I ask , is it a council ticket with all their stuff on it, or one from a private parking company?

If its the latter, safe to say you can completely ignore it as its just an invoice and its not enforcible in law at all, also you should have placed this question in the other forum for parking tickets as you wouldn't receive the smart !!!! answers by a certain individual above.

cjcooper

it is an official one from the council with everything on it.