Help needed!

cherub85

I work at a university and received a parking ticket on Thursday as I parked on a verge in the staff car park. Now I did this as there was absolutely no where else to park. I had been out on university business, returned to teach a seminar, but found no parking space in any car park. This led to me having to park on a verge. I returned and had a parking ticket. I wondered if it is worth appealing on the grounds that I have just explained. I would say that the two commitments meant I had no choice to come in earlier or time to find parking off campus. Not that there is much there either! So annoying at your own place of work! Any advice gratefully received!

tykesi

cherub85 wrote: »

I wondered if it is worth appealing on the grounds that I have just explained.

No.

any advice gratefully received

Read the sticky threads at the top of the parking board which will tell you how to deal with this.

Umkomaas

Who is the parking company as that can help us give you more specific advice?

Meantime do as tykesi suggests; the more you understand this stuff, the better able you will be to handle it and the more likely a successful outcome.

Coupon-mad

cherub85 wrote: »

I work at a university and received a parking ticket on Thursday as I parked on a verge in the staff car park. Now I did this as there was absolutely no where else to park. I had been out on university business, returned to teach a seminar, but found no parking space in any car park. This led to me having to park on a verge. I returned and had a parking ticket. I wondered if it is worth appealing on the grounds that I have just explained. I would say that the two commitments meant I had no choice to come in earlier or time to find parking off campus. Not that there is much there either! So annoying at your own place of work! Any advice gratefully received!

This was at the top all the time:

Sticky: Newbies! Have you got a private parking ticket? Read this now!!

Who is the PPC? You must wait for the NTK now as explained in the sticky info thread.

HTH

barbsch

hi,
if this is policed by the University, then you could appeal to the Dean/your Head of School asap. I recently got a ticket on a University car park and because I paid the smaller amount immediately - they cancelled the process (which would I think have gone to one of the private companies) at source, i.e. University.
If that applies in your case, you could pay (10£ in my case) and then turn to your trade union/HoD and ask for a refund for the reasons explained. Good luck!

barbsch

hi,
thought I'd share here, I have won an appeal against a ticket by 'parking eye' on an aldi car partk - I had gone 57 minutes over the allowed hr.
I argued that they would find it difficult to justify any losses occurred by the owner (ALDI) in Court as this car park is 1/3 empty even in busy times. (Obviously this applies also (possibly) if car park is full and you park outside marked bay without obstruction ;-)
note also that parking eye were dragging the matter out by not sending a complaint response which is needed to turn to POPLA. I had to put my foot down by turning to BPA to get them to send that in the first place. They had already put up charges to 70£.
Interesting is that the decision maker at POPLA not only follows my argument of losses not proven, but also says their business model did not convince (they had claimed their expenses for putting up the boards and sending reminders as part of the losses which does not make sense at all).
So be of good cheer and don't pay them.:rotfl:

Coupon-mad

barbsch wrote: »

hi,
thought I'd share here, NO PLEASE DON'T!

OP please ignore this random post which isn't relevant to your stage.