Parking ticket for re-parking in same spot

squeezeme

Hi everyone. Today I received a ticket for apparently
"re-parking my car in the same place within one hour of leaving".
To clarify....
parking was permitted for 1 hour with no return within 2 hours. At the end of my hour I moved my car to another bay along the same road approx. 100-150 yards away. It was a completely different bay which was only big enough for 2 cars.
Has anyone had a similar experience and what was the outcome if it was appealed against. I did not read the ticket until I arrived home at which point I realised what the traffic attendant had written for reason of the ticket being issued. I also then realised that I should have taken photos of where my car was originally parked and where I received the ticket to show my argument that it was not in the same place as is worded on the ticket.
The fine is £50 but will be reduced to £25 if paid within 14 days.
Any advise is appreciated as I already have a parking ticket for exceeding my time limit on the same road earlier in the week. this incidentally is outside a hospital where I am visiting and staying with my sick father. Using the car park is not feasible as I have to leave and return every couple of hours.
Thanks again in advance for any advice received.

peter_the_piper

I assume this is a council ticket going by the price.

ColliesCarer

Just as an aside - you should enquire at the hospital about concessionary parking for relatives who are having to visit numerous times - a number of them offer things like a weeks ticket for parking any number of times in the car park at a reasonable price.

Stroma

Maybe not, Vinci charges £40 reduced £20 in car parks at hospitals near me. So we need to know OP who gave you this ticket.

spinybif_2

I recently sought advice from a friendly traffic warden on what constitutes a change of parking, he answered that if it is on the same street you will get a fine, if you move round the corner this is classed as not returning to the same place.

Hope this helps

Stroma

spinybif wrote: »

I recently sought advice from a friendly traffic warden on what constitutes a change of parking, he answered that if it is on the same street you will get a fine, if you move round the corner this is classed as not returning to the same place.

Hope this helps

It doesn't help really as that may apply to councils, but private parking companies make it up as they go along, if the rule doesn't exist when you originally parked, they make a new rule to cover that. This is what scamming cowboy parking companies do.

Coupon-mad

squeezeme wrote: »

Hi everyone. Today I received a ticket for apparently
"re-parking my car in the same place within one hour of leaving".
To clarify....
parking was permitted for 1 hour with no return within 2 hours. At the end of my hour I moved my car to another bay along the same road approx. 100-150 yards away. It was a completely different bay which was only big enough for 2 cars.
Has anyone had a similar experience and what was the outcome if it was appealed against. I did not read the ticket until I arrived home at which point I realised what the traffic attendant had written for reason of the ticket being issued. I also then realised that I should have taken photos of where my car was originally parked and where I received the ticket to show my argument that it was not in the same place as is worded on the ticket.
The fine is £50 but will be reduced to £25 if paid within 14 days.
Any advise is appreciated as I already have a parking ticket for exceeding my time limit on the same road earlier in the week. this incidentally is outside a hospital where I am visiting and staying with my sick father. Using the car park is not feasible as I have to leave and return every couple of hours.
Thanks again in advance for any advice received.

Post a pic of both sides of the PCN and the two distinct bays in question, here:

http://forums.pepipoo.com/index.php?showforum=30

And also immediately email the Council to ask for the Traffic Order for that place, if the Traffic Orders are not already linked in the Council's website for the public's info. You want the Order so you can read it and see if there is such a stated contravention in that street, at all. If you are close to the '14 days for the discount' then take pepipoo's advice on appeal wording and include the request for the Traffic Order at the end of the nice early appeal 'if the Council decides to reject my appeal I require a copy of (or link to) the Traffic order and your specific reply as to exactly which section of the Order the Council alleges has been breached'. Read the back of the PCN and you should learn that they 'will reoffer the discount' if they reject an early appeal received on or before day 14. Hence you may as well appeal.

Pepipoo help get most people off almost every Council PCN. DO NOT POST WITHOUT PICS!