Given PCN after officer said I could park there

KLB

In hindsight I should have asked him whether he was giving me a ticket, but everything in his actions said otherwise. Oh and not parked there of course.

davemorton

Google image of parking bay? (purely out of interest)

jwruk

davemorton wrote: »

Google image of parking bay? (purely out of interest)

From the Matrix (with an edit):

Spoon boy: Do not try and park in the space. That's impossible. Instead... only try to realize the truth.
Neo: What truth?
Spoon boy: There is no space.
Neo: There is no space?
Spoon boy: Then you'll see, that it is not the parking space that doesn't exist, it is only yourself.

spiro

This sounds like one of those 'ask the wrong question' scenarios

Question - 'Can I park there'
Answer - 'Yes'

when it should have been

Question - 'Can I park there legally'
Answer - 'No you can not'

One word makes all the difference

poppasmurf_bewdley

KLB wrote: »

Well it was a car park spot, there was no signage to say I couldn't park there and I thought I could. If the officer had told me that I couldn't park there and given me the pcn, then fine.
What I am questioning is that it says I can object if the officer wasn't prevented from either handing the pcn to me or affixing it to my car.

Buckingham Palace has a big parking space outside the front which doesn't have a notice saying you can't park there either. Do you think you can?

Flyboy152

KLB wrote: »

Well it was a car park spot, there was no signage to say I couldn't park there and I thought I could. If the officer had told me that I couldn't park there and given me the pcn, then fine.
What I am questioning is that it says I can object if the officer wasn't prevented from either handing the pcn to me or affixing it to my car.

Can you post a streetview of the parking spot?

Hammyman

KLB wrote: »

Well it was a car park spot, there was no signage to say I couldn't park there and I thought I could.

Tere was also, according to you, no sign to say it was a car park spot either. It just happened to be something that you decided in your haste looked like one outside the post office.

How often do you find a parking space that you have to drive over a pavement to get to? You don't.

Pay up.

Wig

jwruk wrote: »

So you drove over the pavement (contravention), parked your vehicle on the pavement (contravention) in an area that wasn't designated for car parking (contravention) and it wasn't marked out as a parking space and you're questioning this?

It's only a contravention in London, and certain other designated areas outside London. It is not illegal to drive over a pavement per se. And since when were we only allowed to park in designated parking bays?

Wig

poppasmurf_bewdley wrote: »

Buckingham Palace has a big parking space outside the front which doesn't have a notice saying you can't park there either. Do you think you can?

I'd also like to see the big parking spot outside Buckingham Palace, please post a link.

Wig

Satelite link of parking bay outside PO please, if you don't do this we can't advise.