Parking tickets are like buses...

fuzzy_wuzzy

Second ticket this week, completely different circumstances.

This one was issued by Manchester City Council. I was out in the city last night, and parked within a designated spot at 19:09. I paid and displayed taking me through to 8:09 this morning, but stupidly put the ticket upside down on my dashboard.

I came back a little after 10pm to find a parking ticket issued by the council.

On it, it states the contravention is "parked after the expiry of paid for time".

Three questions:

1) Is the contravention accurate? Surely it should be "failed to display a valid parking ticket" or similar? The wording implies that they acknowledge I paid for some amount of parking, which they could not know as my ticket was upside down.

2) As it's council issues I assume my approach is different. Should a friendly call to the council explaining the situation followed up with sending them a copy of my parking ticket be enough to resolve this?

3) There is a printed code on the bottom rear of the parking ticket that matches a code on the front. Is this unique to my ticket? They'll have a photograph of the rear I assume, so sending them the front should confirm I did in fact pay?

And yes I know, I wont be so stupid next time.

Redx

suggest you post in the council tickets section on pepipoo as they tend to have the gurus needed to answer your council ticket questions

Coupon-mad

fuzzy_wuzzy wrote: »

Three questions:

1) Is the contravention accurate? NOPE Surely it should be "failed to display a valid parking ticket" or similar? YEP!

2) As it's council issues I assume my approach is different. Should a friendly call to the council explaining the situation followed up with sending them a copy of my parking ticket be enough to resolve this? NOPE, NO PHONE CALLS. THE PCN TELLS YOU HOW TO APPEAL AND IT IS NOT BY TELEPHONE.

3) There is a printed code on the bottom rear of the parking ticket that matches a code on the front. Is this unique to my ticket? They'll have a photograph of the rear I assume, so sending them the front should confirm I did in fact pay? SEND THEM A COPY OF THE FRONT!

Answers above in red. And get Bogsy's specific wording on fluttering tickets from pepipoo like this poster did:

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/4938714

Bogsy's wording will nail it.

fuzzy_wuzzy

FYI - Parking ticket cancelled.

"Owing to an error by the Civil Enforcement Officer I am pleased to tell you I have
cancelled your parking ticket."

Coupon-mad

Well done - you sussed it was a wrong contravention code and you were right!