Unjust Parking Ticket?

Loubla

Hello. 

Sorry if this is in the wrong place. My neighbours who moved in a couple of years ago have never liked us. 

Today at 8am 5 workmen knocked on my door and asked me to move the car parked legally in front of their house. They were putting in a drop kerb we had no forewarning and if we had we could’ve moved the car. 

I explained my stepmother was at work and as that was her car she had the keys on her and they’d have to wait till she was back as we hadn’t been told. The workman then said he’d move it himself. I told them not to touch the car. They proceeded to push the car while parked with handbrake up and then work with power tools and sledge hammer within cms of the car. 

I took photos and video of all of this and lodged a complaint with the company. They put a small drop kerb right next to the car. My step mother came home this evening and we’ve gone to move the car and have a parking ticket. When we parked there we were parked legally. 

The parking ticket is for the time exactly when they finished and it wasn’t observed for any time. Parking attendants never come down our road so I’m assuming they contacted someone. How can this be fair? Given we had no warning they would be modifying the kerb. 

I’m going to contest the ticket but I’m not sure what to write. 

Can anyone help? Thank you 

Herzlos

That'll be an interesting one; the restriction wasn't in place at the time the vehicle was parked so there's no way the driver could have agreed to anything. Who issued the ticket?

Loubla

It’a a council ticket. London borough. 

JamoLew

head to http://forums.pepipoo.com/

register with an email that isnt Hotmail

post on the Council Tickets & Clamping and Decriminalised Notices section

give as much info as possible and upload photos and the ticket (redact personal info)

Loubla

@JamoLew Thank you! 

David713

This is the sort of incident that local newspapers seem to like and if published, it may well get the attention of the council fairly quickly and end up with the ticket getting cancelled.

lemondrops69

Just get the company who installed the drop kerb to collaborate your story, I'm sure they'll help
Oh no, hang on, just remembered you lodged a complaint against them. Karma, gets you every time

born_again

I would also check with the council that they have permission for the dropped kerb.

Loubla

@lemondrops69 yes I lodged a complaint against them. They know the owner of the house. They pushed our car without permission with the handbrake on. They’ve damaged the bodywork badly. They were rude and intimidating. They called the parking attendant out. Karma indeed. 

Thank you, everyone else. I wrote an email of complaint to the council and the head of planning permission says he’s disgusted by their behaviour and is coming out tonight and contacting the company who he already said he wasn’t happy with.  

lemondrops69

Loubla said:

. They’ve damaged the bodywork badly. 

In that case you'd have been better off calling the police

JamoLew

Hope you get it sorted.

Yours most definitely sounds like an unfair ticket - so fingers crossed someone with even a small degree of intelligence sees this and drops it like a hot rock and gets the ticket cancelled.

Make sure you get everything in writing