Car Towed Away by Bristol City Council.

Spartan_Saver

Need some help.

I work in Bristol's water front once every 6 to 8 weeks. I am contracted by a venue in the water front and the GM of the venue had given me permission to use the car park around the back.

I worked there on Saturday night and when I returned my car was gone (towed away) Apparently 6 weeks ago Bristol City Council had changed the rules of parking on this site : all vehicles need to have parking permits displayed. Unfortunately no one made me aware of this and anyone driving and parking there would fail to see the signs as 1) they are facing the opposite direction from the incoming flow of traffic 2) they are not at driver's eye level 3) they are hard to read (very small print and unlit) 4) they weren't even close to the spot where I parked. Also my car was not obstructing anyone or anything.

I paid £126 on my credit card to get the car released the next day.

My question is, how much of a case do I have here as I have photographic evidence of signs poor location and visibility ? Has anyone been in a similar situation ? As the signs are virtually undetectable as you park it is unrealistic for a driver to agree to the terms and conditions if he/she hasn't seen them (hence no contract could have been made) ? Would pursuing this through Section 75 give me an alternate option ?

Would like to hear your thoughts and suggestions.

Quentin

Take this to pepipoo for best advice

This forum majors on private parking invoices rather than proper council tickets

(S75 claim a non starter though!)

Coupon-mad

Tow-aways by Councils are a no-brainer to appeal the entire cost, including the PCN as well, with pepipoo help.

YOU MUST ACT QUICKLY, WITHIN THE APPEAL TIME!

I've not had time to post there recently but we used to see almost all tow away cases won and refunded there when I posted more regularly.

You could Google search towed away no-brainer pepipoo to read lots of successes.

Spartan_Saver

Coupon-mad wrote: »

Tow-aways by Councils are a no-brainer to appeal the entire cost, including the PCN as well, with pepipoo help.

YOU MUST ACT QUICKLY, WITHIN THE APPEAL TIME!

I've not had time to post there recently but we used to see almost all tow away cases won and refunded there when I posted more regularly.

You could Google search towed away no-brainer pepipoo to read lots of successes.

This is great. Thank you so much