Faulty ticket machine Nottinghamshire county council

Simo429

Morning
tried to use the search but nothing was really appropriate. Yesterday when parking in a Nottinghamshire county council car park I put my money in and it said not in service (not out of order). Thinking that it was the second to last weekend before christmas and that it is a car park about a mile out of the city centre I thought they may have it free. (it is only a pound to park all day on a sunday)

Got back to the car and mine and every other car in the car park had a parking ticket. I then went to re examine the machine it still said not in service and I took a picture, there was a number on the machine for if you couldnt use the machine (which I hadn't read before) I tried to ring it but low and behold it was a sunday so the office wasn't manned anyway.

I was wondering what people thought my chances were of getting off, there isn't another Nottingham county council car park to my knowledge within a couple of mile radius.

wiogs

Head on over to pepipoo for advice.

However if there was another machine anywhere in the car park then you will have to pay.

As I found out.

Half_way

You should appeal the parking charge, there should be some instructions on the ticket on how to do this.
Im assuming this is a council ticket headed Penalty charge notice or similar?

You may need to jump through a few hoops, but if you have all the evidence then your chances are good I would also suggest cross posting this over on pepipoo.com as they have a dedicated council / decriminalised parking forum.

As a matter of interest out of the top ten councils that make the most money from parking fines, only two are from outside London, Nottingham and Brighton.

Simo429

wiogs wrote: »

Head on over to pepipoo for advice.

However if there was another machine anywhere in the car park then you will have to pay.

As I found out.

There are no other machines, the car park only has twenty spaces.