UK Parking Patrol Office, Manchester

taffy056

underwater_gardener wrote: »

Hi.

Re: UK Parking Patrol Office

My wife just attended the Bonfire at Heaton Park, Manchester, with the grandkids and came home with a PCN from these people.

She parked on a nearby housing estate, yellow lines on one side of the road, so she parked on the other side of the road opposite some spare land causing no obstruction. She didn't notice any signs when she parked at 6:30pm, but when she came back at 8:30 and every car had a ticket she noticed that somebody had put a sandwich board at the end of the street saying 'permit parking only' and on closer inspection she saw a sign about 1ft square stuck to a wall about 3ft off the ground saying the same.

I don't pretend to know the legality of this, but I thought any road on a housing estate with a yellow line down one side would be regarded as a public road, and therefore would not be policed by any private company. But even if I'm wrong on this, then surely the signage is breaking all the known rules.

Obviously, after reading the posts here ( a big thank you to every one of you ) I'm going to ignore them. But I won't tell my very guilty wife until I've milked it for a few weeks. HeHeHe!

Yep ignore these jokers, they never do court ever

bondy_lad

wish everyone was like you, and realised people/scum like this are bandits.please do us a favour and spread the word.

aaraiz

underwater_gardener wrote: »

Hi.

Re: UK Parking Patrol Office

My wife just attended the Bonfire at Heaton Park, Manchester, with the grandkids and came home with a PCN from these people.

She parked on a nearby housing estate, yellow lines on one side of the road, so she parked on the other side of the road opposite some spare land causing no obstruction. She didn't notice any signs when she parked at 6:30pm, but when she came back at 8:30 and every car had a ticket she noticed that somebody had put a sandwich board at the end of the street saying 'permit parking only' and on closer inspection she saw a sign about 1ft square stuck to a wall about 3ft off the ground saying the same.

I don't pretend to know the legality of this, but I thought any road on a housing estate with a yellow line down one side would be regarded as a public road, and therefore would not be policed by any private company. But even if I'm wrong on this, then surely the signage is breaking all the known rules.

Obviously, after reading the posts here ( a big thank you to every one of you ) I'm going to ignore them. But I won't tell my very guilty wife until I've milked it for a few weeks. HeHeHe!

Hi there,

I've just been through exactly the same situation I parked in the same street with many other drivers, and I'm 100% sure that there were no signage in the street when we parked they manipulated it when we came back from the bonfire, because I believe there were about 20-30 cars parked in the same street that day howcome not a single driver saw the signs of warning.

I was wondering should we appeal or just ignore them like everyone is suggesting but the only thing which is bothering me now is that there is a new law in place from 1st october 2012 and according to that law we cant simply ignore them.

Really confused what to do, any thoughts?

peter_the_piper

aaraiz wrote: »

Hi there,

I've just been through exactly the same situation I parked in the same street with many other drivers, and I'm 100% sure that there were no signage in the street when we parked they manipulated it when we came back from the bonfire, because I believe there were about 20-30 cars parked in the same street that day howcome not a single driver saw the signs of warning.

I was wondering should we appeal or just ignore them like everyone is suggesting but the only thing which is bothering me now is that there is a new law in place from 1st october 2012 and according to that law we cant simply ignore them.

Really confused what to do, any thoughts?

Of course you can. The law has not changed in that respect.

Sirdan

there is a new law in place from 1st october 2012 and according to that law we cant simply ignore them.

NO !!!!!!!!!!
That is what they want you to believe.
It is a LIE..you are perfectlyy at liberty to ignore all their ridiculous threats and claims, that has NOT changed.

taffy056

On the above, if you are the registered keeper

aaraiz

taffy056 wrote: »

On the above, if you are the registered keeper

I'm a named driver and my dad is the main driver, so does that mean its fine to ignore their threatning letters?

Thanks

taffy056

aaraiz wrote: »

I'm a named driver and my dad is the main driver, so does that mean its fine to ignore their threatning letters?

Thanks

That's insurance, the registered keeper is the one on the log book. If its your dad he will likely get the threatograms.

aaraiz

taffy056 wrote: »

That's insurance, the registered keeper is the one on the log book. If its your dad he will likely get the threatograms.

Yes he is the register keeper aswell, so basically now i should convince him to ignore em?

taffy056

Yes ask him to come here for advice, or sit him down and let the BBC , Watchdog and Ann Robinson do the work

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