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Moved car to a different "zone", still got a ticket??
baldmosher
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Parking restrictions on City Road in Chester from 8am-6pm are max 1hr, no return within 1 hour
So I moved the car every hour, on the hour, to a different area of the road, from from 9am until 5pm. I've done this same thing on 3 separate days, and only received a ticket once.
At the times shown on my parking ticket letter, I was parked in different zones on opposite sides of the road.
At no point anywhere in any documentation can I find any common or clear definition of what constitutes a parking "bay", "zone", or "area". Indeed in my informal appear letter I referred to the fact I "had moved the car to a different zone every hour" and therefore was not in contravention.
The council's reply was that my car should be "removed from the area [for one hour] before returning to the same area". Again with no definition of what "area" might mean. Is it across the whole of Chester? Or just City Road? Is it simply anywhere nearby with the same restrictions? If so what is "nearby"?
Each parking position I took was some 20-30 yards apart, and often on opposite sides of the road, so in all the photos it would be clear that the car had been moved. Of course in the council's response, they have included 3 photos taken at the same time, with no evidence provided that I was parked in the same area at the time an hour earlier.
How far should I have moved the car? What is really annoying was that the reason I thought this would be OK is that a previous conversation with a traffic warden who advised me I only had to "move it around the corner" to avoid a ticket. Did he mean onto another road? City Road is about half a mile long....!
Do I have grounds for formal appeal? It's only £25 if I pay it now, but there's the principle at stake and I want to know why it's not clear. I made every effort to comply with the regulations and I'm just annoyed that they only gave me a ticket on one of the three occasions.
So I moved the car every hour, on the hour, to a different area of the road, from from 9am until 5pm. I've done this same thing on 3 separate days, and only received a ticket once.
At the times shown on my parking ticket letter, I was parked in different zones on opposite sides of the road.
At no point anywhere in any documentation can I find any common or clear definition of what constitutes a parking "bay", "zone", or "area". Indeed in my informal appear letter I referred to the fact I "had moved the car to a different zone every hour" and therefore was not in contravention.
The council's reply was that my car should be "removed from the area [for one hour] before returning to the same area". Again with no definition of what "area" might mean. Is it across the whole of Chester? Or just City Road? Is it simply anywhere nearby with the same restrictions? If so what is "nearby"?
Each parking position I took was some 20-30 yards apart, and often on opposite sides of the road, so in all the photos it would be clear that the car had been moved. Of course in the council's response, they have included 3 photos taken at the same time, with no evidence provided that I was parked in the same area at the time an hour earlier.
How far should I have moved the car? What is really annoying was that the reason I thought this would be OK is that a previous conversation with a traffic warden who advised me I only had to "move it around the corner" to avoid a ticket. Did he mean onto another road? City Road is about half a mile long....!
Do I have grounds for formal appeal? It's only £25 if I pay it now, but there's the principle at stake and I want to know why it's not clear. I made every effort to comply with the regulations and I'm just annoyed that they only gave me a ticket on one of the three occasions.
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Phone up and ask to see the evidence that you were there for more than an hour.0
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I can't phone... there's no number to call!
I do have the email address of an employee so he is getting an email now.0 -
baldmosher wrote: »I can't phone... there's no number to call!
I do have the email address of an employee so he is getting an email now.
Would probably be better posting on Pepipoo as it's a Council ticket, they will give better advice. This forum mainly deals with private parking tickets.0 -
As this is a council ticket you might do better by taking it over to Pepipoo and seeing what they make of it - their record on dealing with council tix is as good as it gets.
Read the intro information carefully and be ready to post-up everything they ask for, depersonalised of course.0 -
You'll need an email address that is NOT a hotmail one to register on PePiPoo.Please note, we are not a legal advice forum. I personally don't get involved in critiquing court case Defences/Witness Statements, so unable to help on that front. Please don't ask. .
I provide only my personal opinion, it is not a legal opinion, it is simply a personal one. I am not a lawyer.
Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day; show him how to catch fish, and you feed him for a lifetime.Private Parking Firms - Killing the High Street0 -
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