Bristol City Council PCN

Pythagoras

Hi All,

I have received a PCN from Bristol City Council for 'parking without payment of the parking charge'. I was just wondering if I have a reasonable case to appeal and what the argument would be?

I park in this car park every day and pay using the Ringo app. I pay £12.20 for 16 hours parking, but it always cuts off at midnight, regardless of when you pay. I normally pay on the app straight away, but on the day in question I forgot and only remembered at lunchtime (about 13:00). I still paid £12.20 for 16 hours, but the receipt only shows I paid for 13.00 to midnight.

When I got to the car in the evening, I had a PCN issued at about 9am. I understand why this was issued, because I hadn’t paid at this point, but it does seem a little unfair that at 13.00 I still had to pay for 16 hours parking and then pay the penalty on top.

With hindsight, I should have checked the car when I realised I hadn’t paid for parking and not bothered paying when I realised that there was a PCN. Then I would only have to pay the £25 penalty. But I assume that’s not the attitude that they want people to take.

It seems that the council haven’t done anything wrong as such, but it feels wrong that I pay for a day’s parking and pay a fine for not paying for parking on the same day. Do I have a case?

Thanks for your help.

Coupon-mad

As the PCN is only £25 you might be best paying it, TBH.

But first post pics of the PCN (both sides) on pepipoo forum in case they see an 'out':

http://forums.pepipoo.com/index.php?showforum=30

There are ore Council PCN experts there than we have here.

NO HOTMAIL EMAILS and NO posting without PCN pics (yes, the back blurb too).