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Parking tickets & snow -can a warden clear the windscreen of snow ?
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TrickyWicky wrote: »It gets a PCN. Failure to clearly display a disabled badge. Same applies in a permit or P&D bay too.
Taking it a step further then, how about a full car cover, how can you issue anything without the reg number etc ?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 -
With great difficulty to be honest!
In both CEO/PA jobs I had we never encountered it. I suppose you could stick the ticket on with tape onto the cover but you'd never get a photo of it with its number plate etc. As above, CEOs have no legal power that enables them to lift a cover to get its plate number etc.
Personally, if it was me, I'd walk on and leave it. Its just not worth the hassle of future accusations of damage etc. That said, councils do have powers to remove vehicles should they wish so anyone trying it on thinking they're being smart, could come back to a vanished car and a hefty storage fee to pay at the pound. That said, you'd be surprised just how many councils DON'T operate any vehicle immobilisation at all. The last one I worked for refused to get involved in it and didn't even have any gojaks.0 -
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Tmgthedonkey wrote: »theres actually a law preventing tham removing car/ windscreen covers............
can still get done for failing to display tax though
Have you got a link to that law please? im sure its an urban myth but im happy to be put right.;)Be Alert..........Britain needs lerts.0 -
paddedjohn wrote: »If the car is on a public road then its not displaying a tax disc or licence plates.
Is that against the law then ? The same could be said if the car is covered in snow. Remember that tricky has said that council CEOs would probably walk away from it.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 -
In other words how can I get away with Illegal Parking............Next Question... if the snow covers up the yellow/Red lines can they issue tickets?0
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In other words how can I get away with Illegal Parking............Next Question... if the snow covers up the yellow/Red lines can they issue tickets?
Parking in most areas in the UK has been decriminalised , so the local council enforce the public roads and public car parks, so in fact far from illegal as no laws have been broken!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 -
You know what I mean, pedant.0
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You know what I mean, pedant.
I know what you mean but others may not, and we should be giving advice that is correct so not to cause confusion. The private parking lot thrive on confusion that is the way they make money, councils enforce most public roads and can issue penalty charge notices, and the police can give fixed penalties that are only defended in the magistrates for the most part.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 -
Surely parking in public places is regulated by the use of local byelaws. If you contravene the regulations contained in those byelaws you can be prosecuted and fined in a court. How is that not legal justice, i.e. retribution for an illegal act?
I'm entirely on your side as far as the private parking scams go.A bank is a place that will lend you money if you can prove you don't need it.0
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