Edinburgh parking ticket

kentc81

Has anyone successfully appealed a ticket issued by edinburgh council?

My informal appeal has already been rejected? Is it possible to pay but still appeal ?

I'm looking to appeal formally , I parked in a residential parking permit space. I have a parking permit, zone 7 . Within this permit zone. There is one small street ( less than 100 metres long ) which has their own designated residential parking zone.

The sign in my opinion is not clear, it says residential parking parking only, in the corner it says place 480 , which doesnt mean a thing to me. The other signs are usually normally clear with a zone number highlighted

I went on to their website, which has a map of edinburgh, telling you which zone a street applies to. Their website says my parking permit is valid for that street ( I did mention this in my appeal already, there was no mention in reply I got )

wiogs

For council tickets head over to pepipoo. They are the people that can best advise.

Coupon-mad

kentc81 wrote: »

Has anyone successfully appealed a ticket issued by edinburgh council?

Yes, the posters on pepipoo forum:
http://forums.pepipoo.com/index.php?showforum=30

...they win almost every case for people, including Scotland ones.

My informal appeal has already been rejected?

So? That always happens, what did you expect?! That's the game Councils play 'because they can' and because they reoffer the discount carrot (bribe). And mugs pay, not realising how close they are to a win if only they carry on to formal appeal and an adjudication (an office meeting, not a tribunal!).

Is it possible to pay but still appeal ?

NOPE. DO NOT PAY.
Start a new thread on pepipoo, with pics of the rejection letter and the PCN (BOTH SIDES!!) and the sign/bay where the car was parked.

pogofish

Edinburgh Council tickets are often very easy to appeal - A combination of poor signage/road marking and slave-driven enforcers mean that mistakes/incompetence are common. Everyone I know who has appealed in the last few years has won.

But you never pay, then appeal - by paying, you effectively admit your culpability, so short of their being forced to write-off and refund by the courts (which does happen in Edinburgh, quite often), yo udon't stand a chance.

Get into Pepipoo and you will get plenty help to deal with this.