Parking Suspension- how much notice?

robinsonj

Something weird happened today and was wondering if anyone can shed any light on what occurred was legal or not?

So, we've been parked in our permitted area all week (all correct badges shown), we wake up about about 8am and have a voicemail left at 7.30am (on a Sunday) with a voicemail saying that if we don't move our car within 15 minutes it will be towed and we will be fined because of a parking restriction in place.

We haven't seen any notifications of parking restrictions, the car is parked on our road so we would have seen them on passing. Our local council website advises that tennants must give the council 7 days notice of a parking suspension request, so should that not mean that we should see the notices with about 5 days notice? From what we can understand the notices only appeared Saturday afternoon, which is surely not enough notice to be fair? What if we'd been away for the weekend?

My partner goes outside to find officials about to tow our car (which would incur a fee) and manages to negotiate with them and we move the car, turns out it only needed to be moved a less than a metre to be OK.

At this time we don't expect to be charged, but just in case they do try to (we've had rotten luck with car bills lately) where do you think we stand on this?

Johno100

What work is being done and by whom? Bearing in mind it is a Sunday I would assume it is emergency work and by its very nature notice can't be given.

patman99

For planned work, a notice must be in place (ie on a lamp post or in a shop window) giving not less than 28 days notice. This notice must also be published in a local newspaper as well.