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PCN For Parking in Diplomatic Bay !
FarrukhQ
Posts: 3 Newbie
There are 346 diplomatic parking sites in the city of London, reserved for foreign embassy staff. But because they are not "standard" bays, councils have to get permission from the secretary of state for transport before installing road signs.
Now Westminster, Kensington and Chelsea, Camden, and Islington have all admitted they did not have proper permission from the government. It means their signs did not comply with the law - and were technically classed as "illegal obstructions of the highway", according to the Town and Country Planning Act.
Every parking fine and car-towing carried out in these unauthorised bays since the 1970s is therefore unenforceable. This article does read on, but I think the extract above gives a good indication.
Can anyone shed any more light on this and guide me further ?
My car was clamped and towed away three years ago at a cost of £275 ... do I have any grounds for an appeal ?
Thanks & Regards,
FarrukhQ
Now Westminster, Kensington and Chelsea, Camden, and Islington have all admitted they did not have proper permission from the government. It means their signs did not comply with the law - and were technically classed as "illegal obstructions of the highway", according to the Town and Country Planning Act.
Every parking fine and car-towing carried out in these unauthorised bays since the 1970s is therefore unenforceable. This article does read on, but I think the extract above gives a good indication.
Can anyone shed any more light on this and guide me further ?
My car was clamped and towed away three years ago at a cost of £275 ... do I have any grounds for an appeal ?
Thanks & Regards,
FarrukhQ
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Neil Herron's blog has lots on this.0
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Thanks, I will certainly check out the blogs
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Can you tell me how I can find blogs by Neil Herrons ??? I'm a new user to this site and cannot find anything for Neil H.
Thanks & Regards,
FarrukhQ0 -
Excel Parking, MET Parking, Combined Parking Solutions, VP Parking Solutions, ANPR PC Ltd, & Roxburghe Debt Collectors. What do they all have in common?
They are all or have been suspended from accessing the DVLA database for gross misconduct!
Do you really need to ask what kind of people run parking companies?0
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