Parking Ticket in my own space!

SubEffect

A few weeks ago I got a parking ticket for not displaying a permit.

This was in my own parking space that comes with the flat I rent. I appealed on the grounds that it IS my space and it didn't inconvenience anyone and didn't cause the parking management company any cost.

They rejected the appeal.

The thing is - in my tenancy agreement the flat comes with a car parking space but nowhere does it say that there will be a parking management company overseeing this or that a permit would be required. We got the permit in the post from the landlord about 2 weeks after moving in and the ticket was issued at least a month after that.

Any advice?

londonTiger

an adjudicator may be more sympathetic so you should escalate this more.

AdrianC

SubEffect wrote: »

We got the permit in the post from the landlord about 2 weeks after moving in and the ticket was issued at least a month after that.

Was the permit displayed in the windscreen at the time?

bod1467

Contact a board guide to get this moved to the Parking sub-forum, where'll you'll get the best, correct advice. In the meantime see my signature.

SubEffect

No it wasn;t.

AdrianC

So you knew you needed a permit. You had a permit. It wasn't in the windscreen... and you're surprised you got a ticket.

londonTiger

AdrianC wrote: »

So you knew you needed a permit. You had a permit. It wasn't in the windscreen... and you're surprised you got a ticket.

you can read, well done.

marcarm

AdrianC wrote: »

So you knew you needed a permit. You had a permit. It wasn't in the windscreen... and you're surprised you got a ticket.

And what right does the parking company have to charge the OP for parking in their OWN space regardless of whether they display a permit, paint their car with gold glitter or any other arbitrary rules they make up?

Should you have to pay if a company decide set up a permit scheme and invoice you for parking on your own property?

AdrianC

Well, I hope the OP doesn't complain too much when - having successfully debunked the permit scheme - they find they can't park in what they believe is "their own space" because somebody else has decided to take advantage of the complete lack of control.

The carpark is, I suspect, controlled by the freeholder of the building in which they rent a leasehold flat, so they are not parking on their "own property".

pogofish

AdrianC wrote: »

The carpark is, I suspect, controlled by the freeholder of the building in which they rent a leasehold flat, so they are not parking on their "own property".

Either way, if the space is specified in his lease, then the OP's right of quiet enjoyment extends there too - permit/PPC or not.

Ectophile

marcarm wrote: »

And what right does the parking company have to charge the OP for parking in their OWN space regardless of whether they display a permit, paint their car with gold glitter or any other arbitrary rules they make up?

Should you have to pay if a company decide set up a permit scheme and invoice you for parking on your own property?

Except that it isn't their own space. It's a space that is allocated to a property that they are renting. There's a big difference.