Invalid Parking Charge?

xvege4lifex

Hi Guys.

I received a parking fine for parking on double yellow lines. However, there were around 7 other cars also parked on the lines which had no Penalty Charges on their windscreens. I appealed the charge. 3 months later, I have received a reply from the Council who have advised me that the yellow lines are seasonal but the ones that I was parked on were not... This was not clearly signposted, yet in the email, they tell me that they do not have to clearly mark this?

I am going to fight this one to the death either way but does anyone know, due to them taking 3 months to reply, does this make the ticket invalid? Or due to the fact that the signposting was very unclear. Are there any loopholes? Regretfully, I no longer have the PCN as they took so long to reply I assumed they had dismissed the charge! I should also point out that I do not live in this area and simply visit a couple times a week to study and so have never had any involvement with this particular Council.

Thanks xxx

Northlakes

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xvege4lifex wrote: »

Hi Guys.

I received a parking fine for parking on double yellow lines. However, there were around 7 other cars also parked on the lines which had no Penalty Charges on their windscreens. I appealed the charge. 3 months later, I have received a reply from the Council who have advised me that the yellow lines are seasonal but the ones that I was parked on were not... This was not clearly signposted, yet in the email, they tell me that they do not have to clearly mark this?

I am going to fight this one to the death either way but does anyone know, due to them taking 3 months to reply, does this make the ticket invalid? Or due to the fact that the signposting was very unclear. Are there any loopholes? Regretfully, I no longer have the PCN as they took so long to reply I assumed they had dismissed the charge! I should also point out that I do not live in this area and simply visit a couple times a week to study and so have never had any involvement with this particular Council.

Thanks xxx

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I am going to fight this one to the death either way but does anyone know, due to them taking 3 months to reply, does this make the ticket invalid?

No, it is allowable.

They have to get to NTO stage within 6 months but pepipoo will tell you how to jump through the hoops of the next appeal stage.

Tilt

Just like to point out that double yellow lines do not require signage.

However it may help if we knew the location so we can take a look on Street View.