Nice people thread part 3- Nice as pie

vivatifosi

SingleSue wrote: »

Grr, went up town today and parked up in the council car park behind the shops....come back to find a fine notice on the windscreen,the blooming ticket had fallen off my window while we were away.

So a one hour trip ended up costing £40.70 in parking fees.

Going to stick that begger on with glue and just to make sure, add some selotape too in future!

I would write and appeal and explain. You never know...

LydiaJ

Yes, give it a try. Especially if you still have the ticket that fell off, and can include it with your letter.

Generali

I went to Jose in Bermondsey last night for dinner. Abso-bloody-lutely amazing. I mean really very good indeed.

I've had some good dinners in my time and that was one of the best. The pub across the road was great too.

GDB2222

SingleSue wrote: »

Grr, went up town today and parked up in the council car park behind the shops....come back to find a fine notice on the windscreen,the blooming ticket had fallen off my window while we were away.

So a one hour trip ended up costing £40.70 in parking fees.

Going to stick that begger on with glue and just to make sure, add some selotape too in future!

If you stuck it on with the sticky thing provided as part of teh ticket, I suggest you should appeal all the way to the Parking Adjudicator if necessary.

PasturesNew

My ticket I got a few months back, never heard another thing. Didn't pay it, not heard. That car park mismanagement company were replaced with the Parking Eye shower a couple of months later, so maybe I never got any threatening letters because they didn't bother as they'd lost the contract.

What I don't understand is: if all private parking 'tickets' are unenforceable, how come they're in business and how come everybody's not ignoring them.

Council's different though ... they're 'probably legal' unless you can find a loophole or angle. The best thing for parking tickets is to get a cheapo empty/clear tax disc holder on your side of the screen and stick tickets in that. They are tricky little blighters though... having to have them the right way round and the right way up.

Round here I think you can get a special ticket to park in "any long term council car park" for about £1000 a year. Although when I looked the price wasn't known as they were still deciding it - and it does apply to long-stay car parks only.

Edit: Found it, they've decided on a system. "Pick any four car parks and pay a fixed fee." It's £135/3 months in my area, or £450-500/year, depending which you pick. Across the county the fee is up to £900/year for your selection of four Council run car parks.

Parking's very complex isn't it.

Edit 2: Just found another one... a Rover Ticket. If I buy a Rover Ticket I can park in any Council long stay car park (there are 7 on the edges of town) in the whole county for a year for £900. Bit of a bargain for somebody who is out/about a lot of the time all over the place. £2.46/day, or £3.86 if you used it for workdays (Mon-Fri) less annual leave and bank holidays (28). So that's like "pay for parking at work and get all other parking free".

Generali

PasturesNew wrote: »

My ticket I got a few months back, never heard another thing. Didn't pay it, not heard. That car park mismanagement company were replaced with the Parking Eye shower a couple of months later, so maybe I never got any threatening letters because they didn't bother as they'd lost the contract.

What I don't understand is: if all private parking 'tickets' are unenforceable, how come they're in business and how come everybody's not ignoring them.

Council's different though ... they're 'probably legal' unless you can find a loophole or angle. The best thing for parking tickets is to get a cheapo empty/clear tax disc holder on your side of the screen and stick tickets in that. They are tricky little blighters though... having to have them the right way round and the right way up.

Round here I think you can get a special ticket to park in "any long term council car park" for about £1000 a year. Although when I looked the price wasn't known as they were still deciding it - and it does apply to long-stay car parks only.

Edit: Found it, they've decided on a system. "Pick any four car parks and pay a fixed fee." It's £135/3 months in my area, or £450-500/year, depending which you pick. Across the county the fee is up to £900/year for your selection of four Council run car parks.

Parking's very complex isn't it.

In Aus you pay for parking in the centre of the state capital cities and that's about it. That's the way it should be. Why on earth would the council charge people to support the local economy?

vivatifosi

Generali wrote: »

In Aus you pay for parking in the centre of the state capital cities and that's about it. That's the way it should be. Why on earth would the council charge people to support the local economy?

Blame Labour. I'm serious here - they went on a big taxing parking drive a few years back. I'm off to bed now so please excuse me not offering any evidence whatsoever to back that comment up:o, sorry - very tired!

michaels

We know how to do street parties here - opened with a demo zumba lesson - quite an eye-opener given they were wearing lycra, more food than anyone could eat and two different live bands (one of which played happy birthday for DD1) rounded off with some fireworks - DD1's friend's mother (from another street) was well impressed at the community spirit - not realising that every other day of the year no quarter is given over parking spaces. Kids had a great time as well sharing toys, cycling/scootering all over without danger and massive water pistol fights - I know we need the roads to get around but seeing how great it is when there is no traffic makes you wonder if we couldn't organise things better somehow.

John_Pierpoint

SingleSue wrote: »

Grr, went up town today and parked up in the council car park behind the shops....come back to find a fine notice on the windscreen,the blooming ticket had fallen off my window while we were away.

So a one hour trip ended up costing £40.70 in parking fees.

Going to stick that begger on with glue and just to make sure, add some selotape too in future!

Appeal, take a gamble on the "pay it now and save 50% inducement".

Once upon a time, I paid and got the slip to be displayed in the windscreen.
It was mid winter and the windscreen fogged up while I was away.
Not sure where the parking ticket went, perhaps it would not stick to the icy windscreen and blew away?
I got the "now it has doubled" letter about three weeks later!!!!
The good news was that I still had the parking receipt/slip.
The bad news was that it had been printed by a thermal printer and had already faded to very indistinct.

So I got some correspondence about the slip being illegible.

I responded with the fact that the slip had a pre printed serial number and under the freedom of information act I wanted to know the serial number range used by the machine on that particular day.

Council agreed to back down:rotfl:

Make sure you make a copy of the parking slip do it now.

I now have a tax disc holder that allows another item to be jammed in next to the tax disc.

You have my sympathy, what is really irksome is the waste of time that has to be devoted to these tasks just to function in modern life.

lostinrates

second flat tyre, same place on the car, within a tenish day period.