Park Right: The easy way to avoid parking tickets. Guide discussion

baldmosher

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https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/comment/71900853#Comment_71900853

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Handy tips for avoiding a parking ticket and helping others#167: If the pay and display machines are not working, and you have some time, and a high vis jacket+barrier tape:

From what i understand the BPA guidance upon discovering the pay and display machines are out of order is that you should park elsewhere, so upon discovering broken/malfunctioning pay and display machines you should exit the car park, then return to the entrance wearing a high vis jacket ( for safety) and some barrier tape/cones, or even a car park closed sign and close off the entrance.
Inform fellow motorists who try and enter that the car park is closed in accordance with British Parking Association Guidelines and they should go elsewhere, this works better at a supermarket or other such retailer, however after a while ( when the car park is empty and the customers have vanished) it would be good manners to call the supermarket and tell the manager why he/she has no customers

P1907

Parking at a hospital in London, paid £2 for an hour, didn't get through within the hour. Paid for about your, but thus time was using my debit card. To my surprise, COM wrote me and asking me tobpay £60 -£100 because they ate saying that, according to their record, I didn't pay for the full duration of my stay, who's I did. They wrote to me during the time I travelled; ehen I came back I received the letter, which was over 14 days and out of the Appeal time. I did write to them and appealed, enclosed a copy of my Itenery and explained the situation and asked them to cancel the ticket, because I did pay for the full duration of my stay. They replied to me after 2 weeks, stating that my appeal was rejected and that I need to pay £100 within 28 days, if not they are going to take me to court and I will end up with a CCJ. I'm very depressed over the letter I received. I have diffulty sleeping at nights, because the whole situation is on my mind, because I know that I did pay to use the car Park. The ticket I received from the machine, when I paid the £2 cash for an hour, I didn't keep it, I disposed of it, soon after I left the car Park.
Please advise me accordingly, because I'm really frustrated and worried.
Thank you.

P1907

Redx

please start a new thread using the red NEW THREAD button , top left of this parking forum , copy and paste the above into it, then you will get bespoke help


no point resurrecting an old and out of date thread

P1907

Parking at a hospital in London, paid £2 cash for an hour, didn't get through within the hour. Paid for another hour, using my debit card. To my surprise, UK CPM wrote me and asking me to pay £60 -£100 because they are saying that, according to their record, I didn't pay for the full duration of my stay, which I did. They wrote to me during the time I travelled; when I came back I received the letter, which was over 14 days and out of the Appeal time. I did write to them and appealed, enclosed a copy of my Itinerary and explained the situation and asked them to cancel the ticket, because I did pay for the full duration of my stay at the hospital car park. They replied to me after 2 weeks, stating that my appeal was rejected and that I need to pay £100 within 28 days, if not they are going to take me to court and I will end up with a CCJ. I'm very depressed over the letter I received. I have diffulty sleeping at nights, because the whole situation is on my mind, because I know that I did pay to use the car Park. The ticket I received from the machine, when I paid the £2 cash for an hour, I didn't keep it, I disposed of it, soon after I left the car Park.
Please advise me accordingly, because I'm really frustrated and worried.
Thank you.

P1907

KeithP

I guess you missed Redx's reply?

Redx

as I mentioned earlier, please start a new thread, dont post in this old one or it will get lost in the system


you wont get any help until you have done as we ask

mblago

My son today received a charge notice from Ace security services for parking on a private housing estate, he has a valid parking permit which he displays in his car, on the permit it says “single stay up to 48 hours no return within 72 hours” ....does this actually mean once he has parked his car he is not allowed to move it within the 48 hour period without getting a ticket, seems ridiculous if that is the case. Thanks in advance for any help.

KeithP

mblago wrote: »

Thanks in advance for any help.

Please read the post immediately preceding yours.

Junction10

There is a street close to my son's school which, to be fair, has always been heavily congested and is a narrow street... It is however one of the safest places to drop a child off for the school, which sits on a double red route.

Recently, the council implemented a one way system - which works great, and a 'residents only' parking bay scheme - so only residents can park in the entire street. It seems to have done the job, as most of the spaces appear to have been occupied by people parking there and going to work in the nearby town centre. The street is pretty empty now.

This morning, I drove down the street and pulled in to one of the many empty residents parking bays to drop my son off.. my engine still running, and indicating - just to let him get out of the car.
An elderly woman was filming me and my son, and her male colleague came up to my window, tapped it, and said "You can't park here.."
I told him I'm not parking, I'm dropping off.. He said "Well we've got your number plate, you'll get a ticket.."
I said I won't get a ticket because I've not parked... then the woman told me she'd be reporting me to the council and get a traffic warden there tomorrow to issue me a ticket if I do it again..

This infuriated me.. I remained calm and pointed out that I'm setting down a passenger, not parking.. She pointed to the signs and said "Residents only".. I said it's not a private road, and it doesn't say 'no loading'.. only residents only PARKING...

With a seed of doubt in my head, I called the local council traffic department who said that I was quite correct, and that I can even disembark passengers on double yellows, as long as that's all I'm doing.. and if a traffic warden saw me, they'd get me to move on swiftly... She said the parking services department would give me a clearer answer, and transferred me to them..

THEY however said no, it's residents only, and that I would get a ticket if a traffic warden saw me dropping off.. I asked what about taxis picking up and dropping off? She said it applies to them as well, no-one without a residents parking bay can park there.. Again, I pointed out that I wasn't parking, but disembarking.. and she just reiterated that it wasn't allowed...

Nowhere in that street does it say no loading, nor are there any blips on the kerb..

I will also point out, though I didn't in my conversations this morning, that my son is disabled and has a blue badge.. While trying to find a definite answer to this I also discovered that I can set him down or pick him up on double red lines, if displaying the blue badge.. I didn't realise that you could do that on double red lines as well..

Apparently, the legal definition of parking includes sitting with the engine running, whether or not the car is occupied, BUT excludes dropping off or picking up passengers...

With that in mind, I can't see ANY of the possible PCN codes that would apply to setting down a passenger in a residents parking bay... but one the one council department told me it IS a contravention.. while another said it isn't..

Who is right????