on street parking PCN

nimblebequick

Hi there
Some info please if anyone has it. I will try to be brief.

Parked "on street" bought ticket and displayed. Moved car around hencorner to another street in same town/district. PCN issued for not displaying valid ticket.

Surely an on street parking ticket is valid for all streets in the town? Or is it the case that the ticket has to be bought from the machine on the street where you are parked. If this is the case then there is nothing to male this clear in the signage!
Anyone know anything about this?

peter_the_piper

Pepipoo.com for you. Get copies of both sides of pcn, if ossible pics of where parked if not Google street view will help them to help you.

TrickyWicky

nimblebequick wrote: »

Hi there
Surely an on street parking ticket is valid for all streets in the town? Or is it the case that the ticket has to be bought from the machine on the street where you are parked. If this is the case then there is nothing to male this clear in the signage!
Anyone know anything about this?

Yes I know a thing or two about this as I used to be a CEO for a couple of councils (aka parking attendant / traffic warden). No I'm not proud of it but I did an honest job and kept myself off the dole..

Anyway in most places P&D tickets are not transferable. They often have a machine number printed on them along with the amount paid etc. Why?

Supposing you park a mile out of town, grab a 20p ticket (typical tariff for some really far out P&D bays) and then go and park in the busy parking areas that are £1 per hour. Thats a loss of 80p to the council. They don't want that, they want your money and so they make tickets non-transferable. If you want to park there you pay the price and if you repark somewhere else you pay again - simple as that in their eyes.

Write in, tell them you made a blunder or couldn't get the other machine to take your money etc and see what they say. If its a first ticket with that authority the odds are they'll let you off the hook as many operate a one strike and then you're out policy though this has been cut down on since the financial troubles started.