help with parking on yellow zig zags outside school

foxbees

hello there I am a courier for fed ex and I have just got a £55 pound fine for parking on yellow zig zags outside a school whilst delivering 7 heavy boxes to the school . there is no loading bay outside the school at all . there are yellow zig zags on one side off the road and pavement parking on the other I have parked on the yellow zigs zags as there is no space on the other side .whilst unloading my van the poxy camera car has come round the corner and drove past me and sat at the front of my van and has erected his telescopic camera I have the 7 heavy boxes by this time on the pavement ready to take in to school I see the camera van and call out to him ok mate im moving now and jump in my van and move it down the round . I said to the horrible little man in the camera car did you give me a ticket just then he replied no your ok you moved thankyou and drove off. this is 11.15 in the morning well after the children are in school so realy dident think this would be a problem any how clearly it was im gutted the fine was £55 just for doing my job .so that day I have only earnt £5 in wages
is it worth me appealing against this or not?
please some one help me as I have 5 kids to feed and a parrot

Dee140157

First you need to visit https://www.pepipoo.com as this will be a council parking charge notice not a private one I would guess
Secondly check the signs outside the school. At my local the restriction on parking on the zig zag lines is from 8am to 10 am and from 2.30pm to 4.30pm. Take a photo of it if there are these restrictions like this.

If it is private PCN then tell us the PPC

And absolutely yes it is worth appealing. I suspect there may be limits the same so pepipoo will help. Yu will need to read the FAQs, probably wait for the notice to keeper etc, but I don't know that much about council tickets. Go there and read and the newbie equivalent thread and then post all the relevant information needed for help, including photos of PCN with personal details missing.

ezerscrooge

You really need to go to pepipoo for this one..

ww.pepipoo.com

wiogs

Round my way parking on the yellow zigzags is a fine.

They used to be advisory but now parking between the times indicated on the adjacent notices is illegal.

"the poxy camera car" with "the horrible little man in the camera car" who was just doing his job, just like you. Only better at it so it seems.:cool:

rdr

At our school the yellow zigzags are "no stopping" rather than "no parking" but only apply durring the times children are coming and going. You need to check what the signs say.
I get very cross when I see delivery drivers endangering children by parking on the zig zags as the children are coming and going -- as for the parents whose little darling tubs of lard could possibly walk 100m from a safe and legal parking spot or (the horror) walk 300m to school.:mad:
You need to schedule your deliveries to schools outside the hours of operation of the zig zags.

wiogs

rdr wrote: »

At our school the yellow zigzags are "no stopping" rather than "no parking" but only apply durring the times children are coming and going. You need to check what the signs say.
I get very cross when I see delivery drivers endangering children by parking on the zig zags as the children are coming and going -- as for the parents whose little darling tubs of lard could possibly walk 100m from a safe and legal parking spot or (the horror) walk 300m to school.:mad:
You need to schedule your deliveries to schools outside the hours of operation of the zig zags.

Our council have made them no stopping (not parking my error earlier) from 8am to 6pm Monday to Friday.

Nodding_Donkey

As a courier you are not going to earn much at all if you don't learn where to load and where not to. As a courier in London I used to get on average 3 tickets per month but they were all appealable. Some weeks I spent more time at the appeals tribunal than I did at work. Some of the lies london councils tell (esp Camden) are appalling but you have to know where you stand. If there is nowhere to unload then just go on to the next drop, they can always come to the depot and pick it up.