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Ticketed for parking in my own space
seasailor46
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Have just returned from a wonderful holiday in Cornwall only for it to turn sour as we were leaving. We rented an apartment in Newquay which was advertised as having secure/gated parking and it's own parking space, excellent we thought as this would save us some money and keep the car safe.
When we arrived we were given a permit and told to display it in our car but to return it to the apartment before we left, we didn't use the car much all week so it stayed in it's designated space with the permit on the dashboard. On check-out day we loaded the car up with the help from our Daughter, who returned the permit to the apartment as requested, we had a final look around the apartment, reminisced about the week and bid our farewell...when we got down the two flights of stairs I could see somebody had slapped a parking ticket on our windscreen!!!
The parking company is Armtrac Security and they are wanting £100 or £60 for paying within 14 days. We rang the apartment owner whom we rented the property from and he said it was nothing to do with him (how's that for customer satisfaction)
Having read through the sticky and previously challenged another ticket (with the excellent help from the kind people on here) I thought I knew what I was doing, but this is where I've come unstuck.
I'm assuming the person we rented from is not the landowner, as the apartments will be leasehold, and there was no parking fee to pay as in there was no ticket machine etc. So as far as I'm concerned we've done nothing wrong here.
The signage says "retrospective evidence of authority to park will not be accepted" but why not? Clearly I was entitled to park there as can be confirmed by the property owner?
Also (and I'm sorry to bleat on) I thought the 'parking fine' should be for any loss, whilst I can see that applying to a public car park what loss has there been here?
Thanks for any thoughts and suggestions as to what to do next, at the moment my thoughts are to follow the sticky and appeal in 20 days, although I'm not sure on what grounds as mine are purely circumstance?
When we arrived we were given a permit and told to display it in our car but to return it to the apartment before we left, we didn't use the car much all week so it stayed in it's designated space with the permit on the dashboard. On check-out day we loaded the car up with the help from our Daughter, who returned the permit to the apartment as requested, we had a final look around the apartment, reminisced about the week and bid our farewell...when we got down the two flights of stairs I could see somebody had slapped a parking ticket on our windscreen!!!
The parking company is Armtrac Security and they are wanting £100 or £60 for paying within 14 days. We rang the apartment owner whom we rented the property from and he said it was nothing to do with him (how's that for customer satisfaction)
Having read through the sticky and previously challenged another ticket (with the excellent help from the kind people on here) I thought I knew what I was doing, but this is where I've come unstuck.
I'm assuming the person we rented from is not the landowner, as the apartments will be leasehold, and there was no parking fee to pay as in there was no ticket machine etc. So as far as I'm concerned we've done nothing wrong here.
The signage says "retrospective evidence of authority to park will not be accepted" but why not? Clearly I was entitled to park there as can be confirmed by the property owner?
Also (and I'm sorry to bleat on) I thought the 'parking fine' should be for any loss, whilst I can see that applying to a public car park what loss has there been here?
Thanks for any thoughts and suggestions as to what to do next, at the moment my thoughts are to follow the sticky and appeal in 20 days, although I'm not sure on what grounds as mine are purely circumstance?
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the template in the NEWBIES sticky thread tells you the grounds for appeal
as this is armtrac then they will turn down your appeal, maybe refer you to the IAS, you can appeal or not appeal to the IAS, there are arguments for appealing and ignoring
ultimately, you have let yourself in for 6 years of hassle, but I doubt it will go to court
if it does, you will tell the judge the above in your defence and he/she will likely throw it out0 -
Does the letting company have a Facebook or Trip Advisor page? if so, write bed things on it.You never know how far you can go until you go too far.0
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